palimpsestic

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• What these palimpsestic tracings make possible is a kind of mapping of experience across and through space, time, and embodiment.

  Academic text (2008)

• The novel suggests that the palimpsestic and unpredictable nature of colonial encounter, good or bad, is subject to present and future unfoldings, not just the dictates of an artificially made and unvaried past.

  Academic text (2016)

• It is its own palimpsestic thing (Hutcheon and O'Flynn 2013, 9).

  Academic text (2018)

• Rather, historical reality is photographed in a way that brings out both the startling modern beauty and nihilistic power of its spaces, no matter their intended purpose, all the while evidencing palimpsestic history.

  Blog text (14)

• This is precisely the function served by Wicomb's palimpsestic narrative, which draws the reader's attention to its own structure and thus leads to "new forms of knowledge" that David, with his reliance on black-and-white certainty, finds deeply threatening.

  Academic text (2008)

• With the passage of time, the meanings that arise from these intertexts are not so much actively palimpsestic, 'in between' the metropolis and the margin, as local and naturalized." (34)

  Academic text (2008)

• If every event, image, and text is framed by a context that shapes, without determining, its meaning (Butler 10), then scenes of violence like the self-immolation must be read in terms of how each framing and mediation constitutes its own palimpsestic iteration of the same moment.

  Academic text (2013)

• The artwork is wonderfully palimpsestic, revealing layers of meaning that span generations.

• The city has a palimpsestic character, where each street tells stories layered over time.

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