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abjure

The United Nations and its democratization became the proxi­mate goals of NAM, which had therefore abjured any attempt to over­throw, or even jujitsu, both superpowers.

—p.96 Belgrade (95) by Vijay Prashad
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involuted

because his was not an involuted na­tionalism, he translated work from French and Russian letters

—p.89 Tehran (75) by Vijay Prashad
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syncretism

the new nation had to protect the canon from chauvinism. It had to promote the idea of the composite cul­ ture or an inherent tendency toward syncretism

—p.87 Tehran (75) by Vijay Prashad
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antinomy

Cesaire moved away from the antinomic quality of this analysis, even if only partially

—p.83 Tehran (75) by Vijay Prashad
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reifying

most of the cultural commen­tary from the Third World, walked a fine line between the reification of the divide between the colonizer and the colonized, and the treatment of it as dialectical.

—p.82 Tehran (75) by Vijay Prashad
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