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Jacques Derrida's revolutionary approach to phenomenology, psychoanalysis, structuralism, linguistics, and indeed the entire European tradition of philosophy-called deconstruction-changed the face of criticism. It provoked a questioning of philosophy, literature, and the human sciences that these disciplines would have previously considered improper. Forty years after Of Grammatology first appeared in English, Derrida still ignites controversy, thanks in part to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's careful translation, which attempted to capture the richness and complexity of the original. This fortieth anniversary edition, where a mature Spivak retranslates with greater awareness of Derrida's legacy, also includes a new afterword by her which supplements her influential original preface. Judith Butler has added an introduction. All references in the work have been updated. One of contemporary criticism's most indispensable works, Of Grammatology is made even more accessible and usable by this new release.
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Throughout her distinguished career, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has sought to locate and confront shifting forms of social and cultural oppression. As her work shows, the best method for doing so is through extended practice in the ethics of reading. In Readings, Spivak elaborates a utopian vision for the kind of deep and investigative reading that can develop a will for peaceful social justice in coming generations. Through her own analysis of specific works, Spivak demonstrates modes in which such a vision might be achieved. In the examples here, she pays close attention to signposts of character, action, and place in J. M. Coetzec's Summertime and Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South. She also offers rereads of two of her own essays, addressing changes in her own thinking and practice over the course of her career. Now in her fifth decade of teaching, Spivak passes on her lessons through anecdote, interpretation, warning, and instruction to students and teachers of literature. She writes, "I urge students of English to understand that utopia does not happen, and yet to understand, also, their importance to the nation and the world. Indeed, I know how hard it is to sustain such a spirit in the midst of a hostile polity, but I urge the students to consider the challenge.".
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• Preface
• Introduction
• The burden of English
• Who claims alterity?
• How to read a "culturally different" book
• The double bind starts to kick in
• Culture: situating feminism
• Teaching for the times
• Acting bits/identity talk
• Supplementing Marxism
• What's left of theory?
• Echo
• Translation as culture
• Translating into English
• Nationalism and the imagination
• Resident alien
• Ethics and politics in Tagore, Coetzee, and certain scenes of teaching
• Imperative to re-imagine the planet
• Reading with Stuart Hall in "pure" literary terms
• Terror: a speech after 9/11
• Harlem
• Scattered speculations on the subaltern and the popular
• World systems and the creole
• The stakes of world literature
• Rethinking comparativism
• Sign and trace
• Tracing the skin of day.

During the past twenty years, the world's most renowned critical theorist--the scholar who defined the field of postcolonial studies--has experienced a radical reorientation in her thinking. Finding the neat polarities of tradition and modernity, colonial and postcolonial, no longer sufficient for interpreting the globalized present, she turns elsewhere to make her central argument: that aesthetic education is the last available instrument for implementing global justice and democracy. Spivak's unwillingness to sacrifice the ethical in the name of the aesthetic, or to sacrifice the aesthetic in grappling with the political, makes her task formidable. As she wrestles with these fraught relationships, she rewrites Friedrich Schiller's concept of play as double bind, reading Gregory Bateson with Gramsci as she negotiates Immanuel Kant, while in dialogue with her teacher Paul de Man. Among the concerns Spivak addresses is this: Are we ready to forfeit the wealth of the world's languages in the name of global communication? "Even a good globalization (the failed dream of socialism) requires the uniformity which the diversity of mother-tongues must challenge, " Spivak writes. "The tower of Babel is our refuge." In essays on theory, translation, Marxism, gender, and world literature, and on writers such as Assia Djebar, J. M. Coetzee, and Rabindranath Tagore, Spivak argues for the social urgency of the humanities and renews the case for literary studies, imprisoned in the corporate university. "Perhaps, " she writes, "the literary can still do something.".
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• "Can the subaltern speak?" revised edition, from the "History" chapter of Critique of postcolonial reason / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
• Reflections on "Can the subaltern speak? : subaltern studies after Spivak / Partha Chatterjee
• Postcolonial studies : now that's history / Ritu Birla
• Ethical affirmation of human rights : Gayatri Spivak's intervention / Drucilla Cornell
• Death and the subaltern / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
• Between speaking and dying : some imperatives in the emergence of the subaltern in the context of U.S. slavery / Abdul Janmohamed
• Subalterns at war : First World War colonial forces and the politics of the Imperial War Graves Commission / Michèle Barrett
• Bipower and the new international division of reproductive labor / Pheng Cheah
• Moving from subalternity : indigenous women in Guatemala and Mexico / Jean Franco
• In response : looking back, looking forward / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's original essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?" transformed the analysis of colonialism through an eloquent and uncompromising argument that affirmed the contemporary relevance of Marxism while using deconstructionist methods to explore the international division of labor and capitalism's "worlding" of the world. Spivak's essay hones in on the historical and ideological factors that obstruct the possibility of being heard for those who inhabit the periphery. It is a probing interrogation of what it means to have political subjectivity, to be able to access the state, and to suffer the burden of difference in a capitalist system that promises equality yet withholds it at every turn. Since its publication, "Can the Subaltern Speak?" has been cited, invoked, imitated, and critiqued. In these phenomenal essays, eight scholars take stock of the effects and response to Spivak's work. They begin by contextualizing the piece within the development of subaltern and postcolonial studies and the quest for human rights. Then, through the lens of Spivak's essay, they rethink historical problems of subalternity, voicing, and death. A final section situates "Can the Subaltern Speak?" within contemporary issues, particularly new international divisions of labor and the politics of silence among indigenous women of Guatemala and Mexico. In an afterword, Spivak herself considers her essay's past interpretations and future incarnations and the questions and histories that remain secreted in the original and revised versions of "Can the Subaltern Speak?"--both of which are reprinted in this book.
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• Introduction, by Rosalind C. Morris
• Part 1 Text "Can the Subaltern Speak?" revised edition, from the "History" chapter of Critique of Postcolonial Reason, by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
• Part 2 Contexts and Trajectories Reflections on "Can the Subaltern Speak?" Subaltern Studies after Spivak, by Partha Chatterjee Postcolonial Studies: Now That's History, by Ritu Birla The Ethnical Affirmation of Human Rights: Gayatri Spivak's Intervention, by Drucilla Cornell
• Part 3 Speaking of (Not) Hearing: Death and the Subaltern Death and the Subaltern, by Rajeswawri Sunder Rajan Between Speaking and Dying: Some Imperatives in the Emergence of the Subaltern in the Context of U.S. Slavery, by Abdul JanMohamed Subalterns at War, by Michele Barrett
• Part 4 Contemporaneities and Possible Futures: (Not) Speaking and Hearing Biopower and the New International Division of Reproductive Labor, by Pheng Cheah Moving from Subalternity: Indigenous Women in Guatemala and Mexico, by Jean Franco
• Part 5 In Response In Response: Looking Back, Looking Forward, by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Appendix Can the Subaltern Speak? Bibliography Contributors Index.
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's original essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?" transformed the analysis of colonialism through an eloquent and uncompromising argument that affirmed the contemporary relevance of Marxism while using deconstructionist methods to explore the international division of labor and capitalism's "worlding" of the world. Spivak's essay hones in on the historical and ideological factors that obstruct the possibility of being heard for those who inhabit the periphery. It is a probing interrogation of what it means to have political subjectivity, to be able to access the state, and to suffer the burden of difference in a capitalist system that promises equality yet withholds it at every turn. Since its publication, "Can the Subaltern Speak?" has been cited, invoked, imitated, and critiqued. In these phenomenal essays, eight scholars take stock of the effects and response to Spivak's work. They begin by contextualizing the piece within the development of subaltern and postcolonial studies and the quest for human rights. Then, through the lens of Spivak's essay, they rethink historical problems of subalternity, voicing, and death. A final section situates "Can the Subaltern Speak?" within contemporary issues, particularly new international divisions of labor and the politics of silence among indigenous women of Guatemala and Mexico. In an afterword, Spivak herself considers her essay's past interpretations and future incarnations and the questions and histories that remain secreted in the original and revised versions of "Can the Subaltern Speak?"--both of which are reprinted in this book.
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has distinguished herself as one of the foremost scholars of contemporary literary and postcolonial theory and feminist thought. Known for her translation of Derrida's "On Grammatology" and her groundbreaking essay, "Can the Subaltern Speak?, " Spivak has often focused on subaltern, marginalized women and the role essentialism in feminist thought can play in uniting women from divergent cultural backgrounds. In "Nationalism and the Imagination", Spivak expands on her previous postcolonial scholarship, employing a cultural lens to examine the rhetorical underpinnings of the idea of the nation-state. In this gripping and intellectually rigorous work, Spivak specifically analyzes the creation of Indian sovereignty in 1947 and the tone of Indian nationalism, bound up with class and religion, that arose in its wake. Spivak was five years old when independence was declared, and she vividly writes: 'These are my earliest memories: Famine and blood on the streets'. As well, she recollects the songs and folklore that were prevalent at the time in order to examine the role of the mother tongue and the relationship between language and feelings of national identity. She concludes that nationalism colludes with the private sphere of the imagination in order to command the public sphere. Originally given as an address at the University of Sofia in Bulgaria, Nationalism and the Imagination provides powerful insight into the historical narrative of India as well as compelling ideas that speak to nationalist concerns around the world. Also included in this book is the discussion with Spivak that followed the speech, making this an essential and informative work for scholars of postcolonialism.
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This play by renowned poet and political activist Aime Cesaire recounts the tragic death of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Congo Republic and an African nationalist hero. "A Season in the Congo" follows Lumumba's efforts to free the Congolese from Belgian rule and the political struggles that led to his assassination in 1961. Cesaire powerfully depicts Lumumba as a sympathetic, Christ-like figure whose conscious martyrdom reflects his self-sacrificing humanity and commitment to pan-Africanism. Born in Martinique and educated in Paris, Cesaire was a revolutionary artist and lifelong political activist who founded the Martinique Independent Revolution Party. Cesaire's ardent personal opposition to Western imperialism and racism fuels both his profound sympathy for Lumumba and the emotional strength of "A Season in the Congo". Now rendered in a lyrical translation by distinguished scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Cesaire's play will find a new audience of readers interested in world literature and the vestiges of European colonialism.
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This spirited and engaging conversation between two of America's most influential cultural critics and international theorists of the last decade explores what both Enlightenment and contemporary philosophers have to say about the idea of the nation-state, who exercises power in today's world, whether there is such a thing as a right to rights, and the past, present, and future of the state in a time of globalization. In a world of migration and shifting allegiances caused by cultural, economic, military, and climatic change, the nation-state, as Judith Butler and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak argue, has become a more provisional place - and its inhabitants, more stateless.
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• Translator's Foreword.
• 1. 'Telling History': An Interview with Mahasweta Devi.
• 2. Chotti Munda and his Arrow. Translator's Afterword. Notes.
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'I had but that one arrow', says Chotti Munda, the hero of this epic tale. A 'magic' arrow that stood for the pride, the wisdom, the culture of their society, a society threatened with inevitable disintegration as its traditional structures crumbled under the assault of 'national development'. The wide sweep of this important novel encompasses many layers. It ranges over decades in the life of Chotti - the central character - in which India moves from colonial rule to independence and then to the unrest of the 1970s. It probes and uncovers the complex web of social and economic exchange based on power relations. It traces the changes, some forced, some welcome, in the daily lives of a marginalized rural community. And at its core, it celebrates Chotti, legendary archer, wise and farsighted leader, proud role model to his younger brethren. Written in 1980, this novel is remarkable for the manner in which it touches on vital issues that have, in subsequent decades, grown into matters of urgent social concern. It raises questions about the place of the tribal on the map of national identity, land rights and human rights, the 'museumization' of 'ethnic' cultures, and the justifications of violent resistance as the last resort of a desperate people.
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• Acknowledgments
• 1. Crossing Borders
• 2. Collectivities
• 3. Planetarity Notes Index.
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For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "rules" of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. Today she remains one of the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences. In this new book she declares the death of comparative literature as we know it and sounds an urgent call for a "new comparative literature, " in which the discipline is given new life-one that is not appropriated and determined by the market. In the era of globalization, when mammoth projects of world literature in translation are being undertaken in the United States, how can we protect the multiplicity of languages and literatures at the university? Spivak demonstrates how critics interested in social justice should pay close attention to literary form and offers new interpretations of classics such as Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Through close readings of texts not only in English, French, and German but also in Arabic and Bengali, Spivak practices what she preaches. Acclaim for Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and her work: "[Spivak] pioneered the study in literary theory of non-Western women."-Edward W. Said "She has probably done more long-term political good, in pioneering feminist and post-colonial studies within global academia, than almost any of her theoretical colleagues." -Terry Eagleton "A celebrity in academia...create[s] a stir wherever she goes." -The New York Times.
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• Acknowledgments
• 1. Crossing Borders
• 2. Collectivities
• 3. Planetarity Notes Index.
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For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "rules" of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. Today she remains one of the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences. In this new book she declares the death of comparative literature as we know it and sounds an urgent call for a "new comparative literature, " in which the discipline is given new life-one that is not appropriated and determined by the market. In the era of globalization, when mammoth projects of world literature in translation are being undertaken in the United States, how can we protect the multiplicity of languages and literatures at the university? Spivak demonstrates how critics interested in social justice should pay close attention to literary form and offers new interpretations of classics such as Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Through close readings of texts not only in English, French, and German but also in Arabic and Bengali, Spivak practices what she preaches. Acclaim for Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and her work: "[Spivak] pioneered the study in literary theory of non-Western women."-Edward W. Said "She has probably done more long-term political good, in pioneering feminist and post-colonial studies within global academia, than almost any of her theoretical colleagues." -Terry Eagleton "A celebrity in academia...create[s] a stir wherever she goes." -The New York Times.
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• Statue
• Fairytale of Mohanpur.

English translation of two Bengali short stories Mūrti and Mohanapurera rūpakathā.

Are the "culture wars" over? What is their relationship to gender struggle and the dynamics of class? Gayatari Spivak poses these questions and attempts to understand and describe a more responsible role for the postcolonial critic, tracking the figure of the "native informant" through various cultural practices - philosophy, history, literature - to suggest that it emerges as the metropolitan hybrid. The text addresses feminists, philosophers, critics, and interventionist intellectuals, as they unite and divide. It ranges from Kant's analytic of the sublime to child labour in Bangladesh. Throughout, the notion of a Third World interloper as the pure victim of a colonialist oppressor emerges as sharply suspect: the mud we sling at certain seemingly overbearing ancestors such as Marx and Kant may be the very ground we stand on.
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• Introduction: Reading Spivak Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean
• 1. Bonding In Difference, interview with Alfred Arteaga (1993/4)
• 2. Explanation and Culture: Marginalia (1979)
• 3. Feminism and Critical Theory (1985)
• 4. Revolutions That As Yet Have No Model: Derrida's Limited Inc. (1980)
• 5. Scattered Speculations on the Question of Value (1985)
• 6. More on Power/Knowledge (1992)
• 7. Echo (1993)
• 8. Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography (1985)
• 9. How to Teach a "Culturally Different" Book (1991)
• 10. Translator's Preface and Afterword to Mahasweta Devi, "Imaginary Maps" (1994)
• 11. Subaltern Talk, interview with editors (1993/4)
• 12. Gayatri Charavorty Spivak: A Checklist of Publications Index.
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Among the foremost feminist critics to have emerged over the last fifteen years, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has relentlessly challenged established approaches in literary and cultural studies. The Spivak Reader makes this important body of work available and accessible to all students. Although her rigorous readings of various authors has often rendered her work difficult terrain for those unfamiliar with poststructuralism, this collection brings Spivak's theories of reading to all readers. Spanning a decade of Spivak's writing, The Spivak Reader brings together some of the author's most salient readings of trends in the study of Marxism, feminism and poststructuralism. Provocatively engaging with such figures as Derrida and Foucault, Spivak's writing provides a spirited analysis of disputes within the field of critical theory, encompassing issues such as: postcolonialism textuality commodity fetishism sexual difference the relevance of philosophy to literature.
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Among the foremost feminist critics to have emerged over the last fifteen years, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has relentlessly challenged established approaches in literary and cultural studies. Spanning a decade of Spivak's writing, The Spivak Reader brings together some of the author's most salient readings of trends in Marxism, feminism and poststructuralism. Provocatively engaging with such figures as Derrida and Foucault, Spivak's writing provides a spirited analysis of disputes within the field of critical theory, encompassing issues such as: * postcolonialism * textuality * commodity fetishism * sexual difference * the relevance of philosophy to literature.
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• Introduction: Reading Spivak Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean
• 1. Bonding In Difference, interview with Alfred Arteaga (1993/4)
• 2. Explanation and Culture: Marginalia (1979)
• 3. Feminism and Critical Theory (1985)
• 4. Revolutions That As Yet Have No Model: Derrida's Limited Inc. (1980)
• 5. Scattered Speculations on the Question of Value (1985)
• 6. More on Power/Knowledge (1992)
• 7. Echo (1993)
• 8. Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography (1985)
• 9. How to Teach a "Culturally Different" Book (1991)
• 10. Translator's Preface and Afterword to Mahasweta Devi, "Imaginary Maps" (1994)
• 11. Subaltern Talk, interview with editors (1993/4)
• 12. Gayatri Charavorty Spivak: A Checklist of Publications Index.
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Among the foremost feminist critics to have emerged over the last fifteen years, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has relentlessly challenged established approaches in literary and cultural studies. The Spivak Reader makes this important body of work available and accessible to all students. Although her rigorous readings of various authors has often rendered her work difficult terrain for those unfamiliar with poststructuralism, this collection brings Spivak's theories of reading to all readers. Spanning a decade of Spivak's writing, The Spivak Reader brings together some of the author's most salient readings of trends in the study of Marxism, feminism and poststructuralism. Provocatively engaging with such figures as Derrida and Foucault, Spivak's writing provides a spirited analysis of disputes within the field of critical theory, encompassing issues such as: postcolonialism textuality commodity fetishism sexual difference the relevance of philosophy to literature.
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Among the foremost feminist critics to have emerged over the last fifteen years, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has relentlessly challenged established approaches in literary and cultural studies. Spanning a decade of Spivak's writing, The Spivak Reader brings together some of the author's most salient readings of trends in Marxism, feminism and poststructuralism. Provocatively engaging with such figures as Derrida and Foucault, Spivak's writing provides a spirited analysis of disputes within the field of critical theory, encompassing issues such as: * postcolonialism * textuality * commodity fetishism * sexual difference * the relevance of philosophy to literature.
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Weaving history, myth and current political realities, these three stories by Bengali writer Mahasweta Devi explore troubling motifs in contemporary Indian life. Both delicate and violent, Devi's stories map the experiences of the "tribals" and tribal life during decolonization. Whether rendering the themes of ecological loss, the connections between local elites and international capitalism, or the role of gender in expressing resistance, as in "The Hunt", Mahasweta Devi always links the fate of tribals in India to that of marginalized people everywhere. Devi's texts are examined and amplified by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Her essays analyze the scope and impact of these stories, connecting the local and international power lines in them.
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• 1. In a Word: Interview
• 2. More on Power/Knowledge
• 3. Marginality in the Teaching Machine
• 4. Woman in Difference
• 5. Limits and Openings of Marx in Derrida
• 6. Feminism and Deconstruction, Again - Negotiations
• 7. French Feminism Revisited
• 8. Not Virgin Enough to Say That [S]he Occupies the Place of the Other
• 9. The Politics of Translation
• 10. Inscriptions - Of Truth to Size
• 11. Reading "The Satanic Verses"
• 12. "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid"
• 13. Scattered Speculations of the Question of Culture Studies.
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In this book, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - teacher, feminist, cultural critic, literary theorist - addresses the crisis of multiculturalism. How are debates over the canon, ethnicity, Third World feminism, and the new cultural studies shaping our understanding of "culture"? One of the most influential scholars in critical theory today, Spivak's writing and lectures have become crucial to the understanding of both feminism and cultural studies. In this new volume, she addresses a wide range of issues affecting multicultural thinking in the university, such as ideas of post-coloniality and international feminism. Fourteen recent essays cover such topics as: the limits and openings of Marx in Derrida; feminism and deconstruction, again - negotiations; French feminism revisited; reading "The Satanic Verses"; "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid"; the question of culture studies. With a translator's ear, Spivak listens for difference, and urges us to hear in our language and in our culture the limits and possibilities of expression. "Outside in the Teaching Machine" is a passionate argument for a fuller, more responsible understanding of different cultures.
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• 1. In a Word: Interview
• 2. More on Power/Knowledge
• 3. Marginality in the Teaching Machine
• 4. Woman in Difference
• 5. Limits and Openings of Marx in Derrida
• 6. Feminism and Deconstruction, Again - Negotiations
• 7. French Feminism Revisited
• 8. Not Virgin Enough to Say That [S]he Occupies the Place of the Other
• 9. The Politics of Translation
• 10. Inscriptions - Of Truth to Size
• 11. Reading "The Satanic Verses"
• 12. "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid"
• 13. Scattered Speculations of the Question of Culture Studies.
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In this book, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - teacher, feminist, cultural critic, literary theorist - addresses the crisis of multiculturalism. How are debates over the canon, ethnicity, Third World feminism, and the new cultural studies shaping our understanding of "culture"? One of the most influential scholars in critical theory today, Spivak's writing and lectures have become crucial to the understanding of both feminism and cultural studies. In this new volume, she addresses a wide range of issues affecting multicultural thinking in the university, such as ideas of post-coloniality and international feminism. Fourteen recent essays cover such topics as: the limits and openings of Marx in Derrida; feminism and deconstruction, again - negotiations; French feminism revisited; reading "The Satanic Verses"; "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid"; the question of culture studies. With a translator's ear, Spivak listens for difference, and urges us to hear in our language and in our culture the limits and possibilities of expression. "Outside in the Teaching Machine" is a passionate argument for a fuller, more responsible understanding of different cultures.
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A collection of the author's essays, discussions and interviews over the last five years on the subjects of cultural and literary theory. The intention of the selection is to articulate some of the most pressing political-theoretical issues of the present day.
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Gayatri Spivak, one of our best known cultural and literary theorists, addresses a vast range of political questions with both pen and voice. The Post-Colonial Critic brings together a selection of interviews and discussions in which she has taken part over the past five years; together they articulate some of the most compelling politico-theoretical issues of the present. In these lively texts, students of Spivak's work will identify her unmistakeable voice as she speaks on questions of representation; the politicization of deconstruction; the situations of post-colonial critics; pedagogical responsibility; and political strategies. Published here for the first time is an engaging battle with John Searle (first broadcast on British television) on the status of deconstruction; other selections are culled from small, hard-to-find journals.
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This book collects ten essays from the five volumes of Subaltern Studies that have so far appeared. The aim of the studies is to 'promote a systematic and informed discussion of subaltern themes in the field of South Asian studies, and thus help to rectify the elitist bias characteristic of much research and academic work in this particular area. The contributors...focus attention on what Gramsci called the subaltern classes and their condition, and also re-examine well-known events and themes in the new, more rounded perspective. The contributors encompass history, politics, economics and sociology; attitudes, ideologies, and belief systems.' Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's essay 'Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography' introduces the volume and Edward Said, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia has provided a foreword.
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Spivak engages general questions of theory; ongoing critical debates with political philosophers such as Habermas and Althusser, with psychoanalysts such as Kristeva, and with legal theorists such as Dworkin.
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