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Shifting Subjects Shifting Ground: The Names and Spaces of the Post-Colonial

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Sangeeta Ray
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This essay participates in a feminist postcohnial critical historiographyfepistemol’ ogy by providing a critique of The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues. The essay considers Spivak's success in interrogating her own position as a leading postcohnial critic as she engages in dialogues with various people. Spivak's commitment to cross-cultural exchanges is undeniable. However, at times the resurgence of her authoritative subject position deflects productive tensions generated by careful scrutiny of the category postcohnial.

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Hypatia , Volume 7 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Philosophy and Language , Spring 1992 , pp. 188 - 201
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Copyright © 1992 by Hypatia, Inc.

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