The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of Gayati Chakravorty Spivak

ISBN-13: 9780415910002 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 344 str.

Donna Landry; Gerald MacLean

Opis

Among the foremost feminist critics to have emerged over the last 15 years, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has challenged established approaches in literary and cultural studies. Although her readings of various authors has often rendered her work difficult terrain for those unfamiliar with post-structuralism, this collection explores Spivak's theories of critical analysis. Spanning a decade of Spivak's writing, this text brings together some of the author's readings of trends in the study of Marxism, feminism and post-structuralism. Engaging with such figures as Derrida and Foucault, Spivak's writing provides an analysis of disputes within the field of critical theory, encompassing issues such as: post-colonialism; textuality; commodity fetishism; sexual difference and the relevance of philosophy to literature.

O autorze

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is Avalon Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. She is the author of In Other Worlds, The Post-Colonial Critic (a book of interviews), Outside in the Teaching Machine, and most recently the translator of Imaginary Maps: Three Stories by Mahasweta Devi. All are published by Routledge. Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean are Associate Professors of English at Wayne State University.