Postcolonial criticism developed a distinctive, often impenetrable prose style

Evidence

Said was canonized by the Western intelligentsia and acclaimed as a leading proponent of post-colonial studies; there was a tendency to associate him with such figures as Homi Bhaba, the post-colonial theorist, and Gayatri Spivak, the Bengali cultural-literary critic. This school of writing has developed its own distinctive prose style. Consider, for example, this gem from Spivak: ‘The rememoration of the “present” as space is the possibility of the utopian imperative of no-(particular)place, the metropolitan project that can supplement the post-colonial attempt at the impossible cathexis of place-bound history as the lost time of the spectator.’ — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 541

Categorization

• CANDY: The quote is famously (in)comprehensible and a joke among academics — a funny sample to share.

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