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This document discusses the concept of postcolonialism and its relationship to colonialism. It argues that colonialism produced contradictions and instabilities by needing to establish the universality of reason through racist hierarchies. This created the possibility for postcolonial critique by dislocating and reinscribing colonial discourses. Postcoloniality emerges from the divided functioning of colonial power and signifies a critical realignment rather than a simple reversal or transcendence of coloni

Author

Oriette Sandoval

Language

EN