1st Edition

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

By Stephen Morton Copyright 2003
190 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak offers an overtly political challenge to the way we think about literature and culture. As she highlights the many legacies of colonialism, she re-defines the ethical horizons of contemporary critical thought. This volume focuses on her key theoretical concepts, intellectual context and critical reception, providing an accessible introduction to one of the most important... Read more
Series Editor's Preface Why Spivak? Key Ideas 1. Theory, Politics and the Question of Style 2. Setting Deconstruction to Work 3. Learning from the Subaltern 4. Third World Women and Western Feminist Thought 5. Materialism and Value 6. Colonialism, Postcolonialism and the Literary Text After Spivak Further Reading

Biography

Stephen Morton is Lecturer in English at Tampere University, Finland.

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