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work_2hofxlrnifb5fay2so2ux4b52a	Lisa Brooks	The Primacy of the Present, the Primacy of Place: Navigating the Spiral of History in the Digital World	2012	9	.pdf	application/pdf	5515	683	73	in that the technologies we use are actively shaping how we experience literature and literary history (Martin 153–56). places, our process of reading rhizomically in the digital world may studies scholars, Dimock questions that assumption, revealing that in other places beyond the "Western world" "a very different image of the spiral, so prevalent in the literatures of the Americas, that is most compelling (2; see also Cohen, "New En gland" 315). emerged from this "old world," literary media deeply intertwined with oral narratives, We might be led to these places by contemporary literature, tribal history, or "wampum chronicles" on the Web (Bonaparte). tradition as a point of origin for American literary history" (Powell, Weems, and Owle 3). mapping American literary history, a spiraling the land and its stories, ancient and contemporary, in our mind, our wired present spiraling us back to the primacy of place.	./cache/work_2hofxlrnifb5fay2so2ux4b52a.pdf	./txt/work_2hofxlrnifb5fay2so2ux4b52a.txt