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Nationalism and the Imagination
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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Paperback. IN Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: JPFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 117 x 181 x 9. Weight in Grams: 86.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has distinguished herself as one of the foremost scholars of contemporary literary and postcolonial theory and feminist thought. Known for her translation of Derrida's On Grammatology and her groundbreaking essay, Can the Subaltern Speak?, Spivak has often focused on subaltern, marginalized women and the role of essentialism in feminist thought to unite women from divergent cultural backgrounds. In Nationalism and the Imagination, Spivak expands upon her previous postcolonial scholarship, employing a cultural lens to examine the rhetorical underpinnings of the idea of the nation-state. In this gripping and intellectually rigorous work, Spivak specifically analyzes the creation ... Read more
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has distinguished herself as one of the foremost scholars of contemporary literary and postcolonial theory and feminist thought. Known for her translation of Derrida's On Grammatology and her groundbreaking essay, Can the Subaltern Speak?, Spivak has often focused on subaltern, marginalized women and the role of essentialism in feminist thought to unite women from divergent cultural backgrounds. In Nationalism and the Imagination, Spivak expands upon her previous postcolonial scholarship, employing a cultural lens to examine the rhetorical underpinnings of the idea of the nation-state. In this gripping and intellectually rigorous work, Spivak specifically analyzes the creation ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857423184
SKU
V9780857423184
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About Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. Her other books include In Other Worlds, The Post-Colonial Critic, and A Critique of Post-Colonial Reason.
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