First published in Wedge in 1985. Revised version printed in "A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present", Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England: Harvard University Press, 1999. Artwork by Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza.
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