Abstract
'The face of foreclosure' summarizes the central figure of Gayatri Spivak's A Critique of Postcolonial Reason , namely the parabasic trope of transnational literacy in motion. In addition to offering a concise explanation of the rhetorical, ethical and political framework of Spivak's book, the essay also provides a definition of the concept of foreclosure that orients Spivak's reading practice of parabasis in the opening chapter on philosophy. The essay describes the effect of A Critique of Postcolonial Reason's amplification of the famous essay 'Can the subaltern speak?', and, through this emphasis on foreclosure as one of the cultural impasses facing the transnational critic, 'The face of foreclosure' offers an account of this trenchant criticism of postcolonial studies.
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