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Key to the postcolonial discourse is an interpretation of the relation of identity and difference in which the terms of the relation are construed in a geocultural sense. The West is colonial in the sense that it silences difference in defence of its singular identity and eschatological economy. The postcolonial discourse has an assumption and an aim. It assumes that the modern, Western conception...