A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present

Are the culture wars over? What is their relationship to gender struggle and the dynamics of class? Gayatari Spivak poses these questions and attempts to understand and describe a more responsible role for the postcolonial critic, tracking the figure of the native informant through various cultural practices - philosophy, history, literature - to suggest that it emerges as the metropolitan hybrid.