Title A critique of postcolonial reason : toward a history of the vanishing present / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 449 pages) Contents Philosophy -- Literature -- History -- Culture Summary "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 of Caliban," Spivak writes; and her book is an attempt to understand and describe a more responsible role for the postcolonial critic. 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. The book addresses feminists, philosophers, critics, and interventionist intellectuals, as they unite and divide. It ranges from Kant's analytic of the sublime to child labor in Bangladesh. Throughout, the notion of a Third World interloper as the pure victim of a colonialist oppressor emerges as sharply suspect: the mud we sling at certain seemingly overbearing ancestors such as Marx and Kant may be the very ground we stand on."--Pub. desc Analysis Postcolonialism Feminist criticism Women and literature Feminism and literature Philosophy, Modern -- 19th century Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century Politics and culture Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Postcolonialism. Feminist criticism. Women and literature. Feminism and literature. Philosophy, Modern -- 19th century. Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century. Politics and culture. Culture Social history. Feminist theory. Feminist literary criticism. Social Conditions postcolonialism. social history. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. Culture Feminism and literature Feminist criticism Feminist theory Philosophy, Modern Politics and culture Postcolonialism Social history Women and literature Feminismus Literatur Kulturtheorie Postkolonialismus Postkolonialisme. Feministische literatuurkritiek. Politieke cultuur. Filosofie. Literatuurtheorie. Cultuurkritiek. Postcolonialism. Feminist criticism. Women and literature. Feminism and literature. Philosophy, Modern -- 19th century. Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780674504165 067450416X

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