File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_2001/postcolonial.0110, message 467


Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 11:32:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Imre Szeman <szeman-AT-mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca>
Subject: Re: Spivak


Hi,

Nicholas Brown has a review of the book in _Symploke_. You can access it
online if you do so from a place that has a Project Muse subscription. (Or
you can contact Nicholas Brown off-list and ask him to send you a copy:
cola-AT-uic.edu).

Imre Szeman
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On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Maci Elkins wrote:

> Dear list:
>
> I was hoping a kind soul could help me make some sense
> of Spivak's "A Critique of Postcolonial Reason"--a
> book that I've been trying to work through for the
> past 3 weeks. I'm not affiliated with a university, so
> there's no class or professor I can go to for
> clarification. I did, however, look up a review of the
> book by David Huddart in one of the public libraries
> here in Chicago.  Still confused. Is there any other
> recent criticism that deals with this book?
>
> Maybe if someone could just guide me through the first
> chapter, "Philosophy", and set me on my way, I'd be
> much better off. What are the important points that I
> should get from the "Philosophy" chapter? What is she
> trying to accomplish by her "mistaken" readings of
> Kant, Hegel, and Marx (in terms of the overall goal of
> the book)? And I'm also a bit unclear about a lot of
> the terms she uses: Native Informant, foreclosure,
> etc.  Any help, any!, would be greatly appreciated.
>
> I'm sorry if this book has already been discussed on
> the list. I'm new here, so perhaps someone could
> direct me to the archives...?
>
> I think what I'm going to do is try reading through
> the first chapter once more, and then ask about
> specific passages.
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Maci.
>
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