historylessness

English

Etymology

historyless +‎ -ness

Noun

historylessness (uncountable)

1. Absence of history.
   • 2006, June E. Roberts, Reading Erna Brodber, page 58:

     Brodber uses the most commonly recognized tropes of Caribbean discourse—and, to borrow a term from Gates's Signifying Monkey, " tropes the tropes" of exile, self-hatred, self-alienation, and longing for the sought after prestige of privileged white Otherness, elevating elsewhereism, accepting as natural a hegemonically imposed sense of historylessness, split subjectivity, dependence and psychic fragmentation.