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  1. In an earlier essay, Loomba argues for the need of a criticism that crosses temporal and geographical boundaries (Loomba, 2007).

  2. For a similar critique, see Peter Erickson and Kim Hall’s introduction to a special issue of Shakespeare Quarterly devoted to race: ‘But after more than twenty years of scholarship in early modern studies, we can only conclude that these acts of refusal [to acknowledge race] are also due to a pathological averseness to thinking about race under the guise of protecting historical difference’ (Erikson and Hall, 2016, 2).

  3. The absence is all the more noticeable in the context of work on race and romance, such as Heng (2003) and Spiller (2011).

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Britton, D.A. Histories and temporalities past, present, and future. Postmedieval 10, 111–126 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41280-018-0118-y

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