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A Critique of Postcolonial Reason

Toward a History of the Vanishing Present

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

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ISBN 9780674177642

Publication Date: 06/28/1999

464 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor at Columbia University and a trainer of elementary school teachers in West Bengal.

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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Is Winner of the 2012 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy

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