In Other Worlds Essays In Cultural Politics Routledge Classics Series
Auteur : Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty
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.
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
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.
Date de parution : 07-2015
12.9x19.8 cm
Date de parution : 05-2006
Ouvrage de 448 p.
12.9x19.8 cm
Thème d’In Other Worlds :
Mots-clés :
italics; mine; mahasweta; devi; samson; agonistes; vita; nuova; west; bengal; Capital III; American Stock Exchange; Young Men; Tamil Nadu; Ego Dominus Tuus; Amica Silentia Lunae; Social Reproduction; Vice Versa; Pedagogic Practice Theory; West Germany; Draws Back; Deo Volente; Uninvited Guest; Feminist Alternative Readings; Superb; Subaltern Studies Group; Subaltern Consciousness; Woman’s Jouissance; Mahasweta Devi; Subaltern Studies; Phono Centrism; French Feminism; Coleridge's Text; Essential Duplicity; General Morphological Similarities