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Conversations with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri C Spivak
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Description for Conversations with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Paperback. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has built a global reputation in feminist, marxist and literary criticism as well as post-colonialism. This work contains interviews and talks that reflect the international character of her intellectual engagement with the ideas and the politics, which shape the world. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 201 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 224.
Controversial, challenging and outspoken, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most visible and controversial cultural critics of our time. Her reputation was first made by her translation and preface to Jacques Derrida's ground-breaking work, "Of Grammatology". She has since built a global reputation in feminist, marxist and literary criticism as well as post-colonialism. A reputation underpinned by her active involvement in the practical politics of women's empowerment, third world education and development debates. In these thought-provoking interviews and talks, we see her being provocative, playful, personal and accessible in a way that her complex, theoretical essays do not allow. ... Read more
Controversial, challenging and outspoken, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most visible and controversial cultural critics of our time. Her reputation was first made by her translation and preface to Jacques Derrida's ground-breaking work, "Of Grammatology". She has since built a global reputation in feminist, marxist and literary criticism as well as post-colonialism. A reputation underpinned by her active involvement in the practical politics of women's empowerment, third world education and development debates. In these thought-provoking interviews and talks, we see her being provocative, playful, personal and accessible in a way that her complex, theoretical essays do not allow. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Seagull Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781905422289
SKU
V9781905422289
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About Gayatri C Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak was born and educated in Calcutta, before moving to the USA, where she is now Avalon Foundation Professor at Columbia University. She is author of numerous works including In Other Worlds, The Postcolonial Critic, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason and Death of a Discipline.
Reviews for Conversations with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
'She is among the most coruscatingly intelligent of all contemporary theorists.' Terry Eagleton