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Fixity, as a sign of cultural/historical/racial difference in the discourse of colonialism, is a paradoxical mode of representation: it connotes rigidity and an unchanging order as well as disorder, degeneracy and daemonic repetition.
Rather, Quinones writes about cross-rivalries, tensions between writers of consciousness, who believe in the power of reason and are suspicious of inspiration, and their antagonists, daemonic writers, who are open to the inner voice, to pressures coming from the marginal areas of experience.
America is much like a daemonic entity in Russian politics, a terrifying presence that animates policy from Moscow.
 
 
 
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