Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

In Other Worlds

Essays In Cultural Politics
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Produktbeschreibung

In this classic work, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the leading and most influential cultural theorists working today, analyzes the relationship between language, women and culture in both Western and non-Western contexts.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Classics
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: RU9569X
• Seitenzahl: 442
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 439g
• ISBN-13: 9780415389563
• ISBN-10: 0415389569
• Artikelnr.: 20885556

Autorenporträt

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, (b. 1942) Regarded to be one of the most important figureheads of postcolonial studies. Born in India, she is a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University in New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Colin MacCabe. Author's Note. One: Literature 1. The Letter as Cutting Edge 2. Finding Feminist Readings: Dante-Yeats 3. Unmaking and Making in To the Lighthouse 4. Sex and History in The Prelude (1805): Books Nine to Thirteen 5. Feminism and Critical Theory Two: Into the World 6. Reading the Worlds: Literary Studies in the Eighties 7. Explanation and Culture: Marginalia 8. The Politics of Interpretations 9. French Feminism in an International Frame 10. Scattered Speculations on the Questions of Value Three: Entering the Third World 11. "Draupadi" by Mahasweta Devi 12. Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography 13. "Breast-Giver" by Mahasweta Devi 14. A Literary Representation of the Subaltern: A Woman's Text from the Third World. Notes

Rezensionen

'A celebrity in academia . . . [Spivak] creates a stir wherever she goes.' - The New York Times

'Always challenging and brilliantly argued, these essays deserve careful thought.' - Journal of Modern Literature

'A celebrity in academia . . . [Spivak] creates a stir wherever she goes.' - The New York Times

'Always challenging and brilliantly argued, these essays deserve careful thought.' - Journal of Modern Literature