A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (975 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674177649 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 464 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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"if you are interested on postcolonialism, is a must" according to teresa. if you are interested on postcolonialism, is a must. The reader should be familiarized with XIXth phlosophy and literature, otherwise, is hard to follows. Maria said Five Stars. I love the book. Michael Angelo Jimenez Cobos said Five Stars. great book intense but a good and educational read.:)
. Overall, she seeks to distance herself from mainstream postcolonial literature and to reassert the value of earlier theorists such as Kant and Marx. Readers unfamiliar with recent trends in literary studies may find Spivak's deliberately elusive prose impenetrable. From Library Journal In recent years, a growing body of literary and historical scholarship has explored the complex relationship of Western elite culture to the postcolonial societies of the Southern hemisphere. Spivak, a prominent
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason tracks the figure of the "native informant" through various cultural practices--philosophy, history, literature--to suggest that it emerges as the metropolitan hybrid. It ranges from Kant's analytic of the sublime to child labor in Bangladesh. Are the "culture wars" over? When did they begin? What is their relationship to gender struggle and the dynamics of class? In her first full treatment of postcolonial studies, a field that she helped define, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the world's foremost literary theorists, poses these questions from within the postcolonial enclave."We cannot merely continue to act out the part o