Empires usually operate on the premise that only imperial centres are carriers of historical progress humanity, whereas peripheries far removed from this progress’s blessing. According to John Maxwell Coetzee, Dutch Empire considered South Africa as its own land, which deprived country’s indigenous people their citizen rights. Like residents European who were relegated similar zones indistincti...

In pursuit of an alternative perspective on the so-called ‘statues controversy’, this essay brings recent interpretations enduring ‘power’, ‘gaze’ and ‘magic’ statues into alignment with critical histories iconoclasm, sacred secular, New Materialist accounts our multiple entanglements object inherited monuments. Opening a close reading Percy Bysshe Shelley's renowned 1818 sonnet, ‘Ozymandias’, ...