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

Death of a Discipline (The Wellek Library Lectures)

Literature & Fiction

SPIVAK, GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY

History & Criticism

Columbia University Press

Death of a Discipline: Twentieth Anniversary Edition (The Wellek Library Lectures)

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is among the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences of the past half-century. In this book, originally published in 2003, 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 reborn―one that is not appropriated and determined by the market.\nSpivak examines how comparative literature and world literature in translation have fared in the era of globalization and considers how to protect the multiplicity of languages and literatures at the university. She demonstrates why critics interested in social justice should pay close attention to literary form and offers insightful interpretations of classics such as Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. Through readings of texts not only in English, French, and German but also in Arabic and Bengali, Spivak practices what she preaches.\nThis anniversary edition features a new preface in which Spivak reflects on the fortunes of comparative literature in the intervening years and its tasks today.

In Other Worlds: Essays In Cultural Politics (Routledge Classics)

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. Developing an original integration of powerful contemporary methodologies – deconstruction, Marxism and feminism – Spivak turns this new model on major debates in the study of literature and culture, thus ensuring that In Other Worlds has become a valuable tool for studying our own and other worlds of culture.

Reference

Routledge

Spivak debates general questions of theory with political philosophers such as Habermas and Althusser, psychoanalysts such as Kristeva, and with legal theorists such as Dworkin.

In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics

Arts & Photography

The Post-Colonial Critic

Gayatri Spivak, one of our best known cultural and literary theorists, addresses a vast range of political questions with both pen and voice in this unique book. 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 and self-representation, the politicization of deconstruction; the situations of post-colonial critics; pedagogical responsibility; and political strategies.

The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues

Harasym, Sarah

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Outside in the Teaching Machine

In other worlds: Essays in cultural politics

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.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

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. Developing an original integration of powerful contemporary methodologies â€“ deconstruction, Marxism and feminism â€“ Spivak turns this new model on major debates in the study of literature and culture, thus ensuring that In Other Worlds has become a valuable tool for studying our own and other worlds of culture.

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Death of a Discipline (The Wellek Library Lectures)

Death of a Discipline (The Wellek Library Lectures)

Death of a Discipline: Twentieth Anniversary Edition (The Wellek Library Lectures)

Death of a Discipline: Twentieth Anniversary Edition (The Wellek Library Lectures)

In Other Worlds: Essays In Cultural Politics (Routledge Classics)

In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics

The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues

Outside in the Teaching Machine

In other worlds: Essays in cultural politics

In other worlds: Essays in cultural politics