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Examines the evolution of postcolonial theories concerning Latin America, demonstrating the interaction of hegemony, power, discourse, & knowledge. The development of postcolonial discourse in the works of Homi Bhabha (1994), Gayatri Spivak (1994), Ranajid Guha (1988), & Edward Said (1978) is discussed. It is shown how these authors were critical of anticolonialist narratives of the 1970s & stressed the continued legacies of colonialism in modern systems, as evidenced by the Other. These legacies were found in First World academia by US thinkers such as John Beverley (eg, 1996) & Walter Mignolo (eg, 1996), who criticized the epistemological strategies of Latin American Studies programs, seen as denying the agency of subaltern subjects. This is demonstrated in an analysis of Beverley's & Mignolo's challenges to the dominant humanistic view of Latin American historiography & its expression in the canon of US universities. It is concluded that the instrumental view of knowledge expressed by Mignolo & others in subaltern studies weakens their usefulness in examining the persistence of colonialism in the modern era. T. Arnold