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en Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 ian 2008
In this major intervention into the 'Asian Century', Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak challenges the reader to re-think Asia, in its political and cultural complexity, in the global South and in the metropole.
  • Major work from one of the world's most distinguished literary and cultural theorists
  • Intervenes in the fraught issues generated by ideas of Asia
  • Featured essays include "Foucault and Najibullah," "Moving Devi," "Responsibility," and "Megacity"
  • Other chapters focus on, among other things, Human Rights, and the turbulent "present" of the Caucasus
  • Essential reading for anyone interested in postcolonialism, and devotees of Spivak's writing
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781405102063
ISBN-10: 1405102063
Pagini: 376
Dimensiuni: 157 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

students and faculty in literary theory, cultural theory, continental philosophy, postcolonialism and feminism

Notă biografică

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's reputation was first established with her translation of and preface to Jacques Derrida's De la grammatologie in 1976. Subsequently, she helped to establish the field of postcolonial studies and became a leading postcolonial theorist. Her key publications include In Other Worlds (1987), The Post-Colonial Critic (1990), Outside in the Teaching Machine (1993), and A Critique of Postcolonial Reason (1999).

Cuprins

Acknowledgments. Foreword.
1. Righting Wrongs - 2002: Accessing Democracy among the Aboriginals.
2. Responsibility - 1992: Testing Theory in the Plains.
3. 1994: Will Postcolonialism Travel?.
4. 1996: Foucault and Najibullah.
5. Megacity - 1997: Testing Theory in Cities.
6. Moving Devi - 1997: The Non-Resident and the Expatriate.
7. Our Asias - 2001: How to Be a Continentalist.
Position without Identity -2004: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak by Yan Hairong.
Notes.
Index

Descriere

In this major intervention into the 'Asian Century', Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak challenges the reader to re-think Asia, in its political and cultural complexity, in the global South and in the metropole.