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

6 best books like A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present (Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak): The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Privilege of the Sword, Swordspoint, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, The Human Condition, The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE – 1492 CE

The Origins of Totalitarianism
AuthorHannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history

The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European...
The Privilege of the Sword
AuthorEllen Kushner
ISBN0553382683
Welcome to Riverside, where the aristocratic and the ambitious battle for power in the city's ballroom, brothels and boudoirs. Into this alluring world walks Katherine, a well-bred country girl versed in the rules of conventional society. Her mistake is thinking that they apply. For Katherine's...
Swordspoint
AuthorEllen Kushner
ISBN0553585495
The classic forerunner to The Fall of the Kings now with three bonus stories.

Hailed by critics as "a bravura performance" (Locus) and "witty, sharp-eyed, [and] full of interesting people" (Newsday), this classic melodrama of manners, filled with remarkable plot twists and unexpected...
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
AuthorJudith Butler
ISBN0415389550
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. This is the text where Judith Butler began to advance the ideas that...
The Human Condition
AuthorHannah Arendt
ISBN0226025985
A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Condition is a in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable....
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE – 1492 CE
AuthorSimon Schama
ISBN1847921329
It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds. It spans the millennia and the continents - from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It takes...
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