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palimpsest (păl`ĭmpsĕst'): see manuscript manuscript, a handwritten work as distinguished from printing. The oldest manuscripts, those found in Egyptian tombs, were written on papyrus ; the earliest dates from c.3500 B.C.
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In fact, the houses in African American women's literature are often palimpsests of all four kinds of space--architectural, geographic, psychic, and communal--and thus they are multilayered signifiers.
It also reflects the widespread discovery that nothing is so boring and oppressive as the monothematic Modernist masterplan, and that most real landscapes are palimpsests recording layers of history and changes of mind.
These palimpsests represent a major break with a musical tradition that dated back many centuries.
 
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