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describe a responsible role for the postcolonial critic within the post-colonial enclave.A Critique of Postcolonial Reason tracks the figure of the “nativeinformant\"through various culural practices—philosophy,history,licerature—to suggest chat it emerges as the metropolitan hybrid.The book addresses fem-inists,philosophers,critics,and interventionist intellectuals as they unite anddivide.It ranges from Kant's analytic of the sublime to child labor in Bangladesh.  \n\"This is vintage Spivak—dazzling,exasperating,unfailingly powerful.\"—Partha Chatterjee,author of The Nation and Its Fragments  \n\"In these pages Gayari Spivak performs what often seems either impossible orpurely gestural—a critique of iransnational globalizauon which manages to beequally attuned to its cultural and economic effects.This book deserves to beread for its modulated defense of Marxism and feminism alone.It will be wel-comed as the clearest statement to date of Spivaks own relauionship to the post-colonial theory with which she herself—wrongly,as she forcefully argues here—is so often idenzified.With a brilliance that is uniquely hers,Spivak issues a chal-lenge which will be very hard to avoid to the limits of theory and of academicinsuitutions alike.\"  \n—Jacqueline Rose,author of States of Fantasy and The Haunting of Sylvia Plath  \n“Gayacri Spivak tells us that here she charts her progress from colonial discoursestudies to ransnational cultural suudies.She constructs this exiraordinary prog-ress through an intricate labyrinch,but one with blazing lighis in every corner.”—Saskia Sassen,author of Globalization and Its Discontents  \n“Gayatr Spivak works with remarkable complexity and skill to evoke che localdetails of emergent agency in an internauonal frame.Her extraordinary atten-tion to the texts she reads and her ability to track the reach of global power makeher one of the unparalleled incellectuals of our ume.\"  \n—Judith Butler,auchor of The Psychiu Life of Pozver  \nGayari Chakravorty Spivak is the Avalon Foundacion Professor in theHumanities at Columbia University and che auchor of many books,including InOther Worlds:Essays in Cultural Politics.  \nHarvord University Press  \nCambridge,MassachusettsLondon,Englandwww hup harvardedu  \nISBN □-674-177L4-5  \nCover derign by Lisn ClarkPbotograpb by Kalobaran Labe  \nA(RiIIQUE OF POSTCOLONIAL REASON一业  \n| A Critique of  \u003Cbr>Postcolonial Reason   |\n| --- |\n| TowARD A HIsTORY OF THE  \u003Cbr>VANISHING PRESENT  \u003Cbr>Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak  \u003Cbr>HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS  \u003Cbr>Cambridge,Massachusetts  \u003Cbr>London,England   |\n\nCopyright 1999 by the President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeAll rights reservedPrinted in tbe United States of America  \nSecond printing,1999  \nLIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATASpivak,Gayatri Chakravorty.  \nAcritique of postcolonial reason:toward a history of thevanishing present/Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak  \nP.  cm.  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.ISBN0-674-17763-0(alk paper).ISBN0-674-17764-9(pbk:alk paper)  \n1.Postcolonialism.2.Feminist criticism.  \n3.Women and literature.4.Feminism and literature.  \n5.Philosophy,Modern—19th century.  \n6.Philosophy,Modern—20th century.  \n7.Politics and culture.  \n1999  \nJV51.S58  \n325'.3—dc21  \n1  98-31566  \n# Tarak Nath Sen\n\nPaul de Man  \n### C o N T E N T S\n\nPreface /ix  \n1 Philosophy /12 Literature /1123 History /1984 Culture /312  \nAppendix:The Setting to Work of Deconstruction /423  \nIndex /433  \n## P R E F A C E\n\nMy aim,to begin with,was to track the figure of the Native Informantthrough various practices:philosophy,literature,history,culture.SoonI found that the tracking showed up a colonial subject detaching itselffrom the Native Informant.After 1989,I began to sense that a certainpostcolonial subject had,in turn,been recoding the colonial subject 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