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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1999), xiii + 449 pp., $24.95.
One of the foremost scholars of postcolonialism, Gayatri Spivak's most recent text, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason, brings together in a single volume a wide range of her work in postcolonial studies. Revising some previously published essays, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason includes a feminist perspective on deconstruction, a Marxist analysis of capital and the international division of labor, critiques of transnational globalization, readings of colonial and neocolonial discourse, critiques of academic discourse, critiques of the status of the migrant in multiculturalism, and a discussion of identity and culture in the neocolonial world. She weaves together these multiple levels of critique brilliantly, presenting a rigorous reading of the discourses of imperialism. Spivak is well...