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In other worlds : essays in cultural politics /

By: Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty.
Series: Routledge classics.Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2006Edition: Routledge classics ed.Description: xxviii, 409 p. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415389569 (pbk.); 9780415389563:; 9780415389563 (pbk.).Subject(s): Postcolonialism | Culture | Feminism and literature | Women and literature | Feminist criticismDDC classification: 809
Contents:
The letter as cutting edge -- Finding feminist readings: Dante-Yeats -- Unmaking and making in To the lighthouse -- Sex and history in The prelude (1805): books nine to thirteen -- Feminism and critical theory -- Reading the world: literary studies in the eighties -- Explanation and culture: marginalia -- The politics of interpretations -- French feminism in an international frame -- Scattered speculations on the question of value -- "Draupadi" by Mahasweta Devi -- Subaltern studies: deconstructing historiography -- "Breast-giver" by Mahasweta Devi -- A literary representation of the subaltern: a woman's text from the Third World.
Summary: In 'In Other Worlds', Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the leading and most influential cultural theorists working today, analyzes the relationship between language, women & culture in both Western & non-Western contexts.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-409).

The letter as cutting edge -- Finding feminist readings: Dante-Yeats -- Unmaking and making in To the lighthouse -- Sex and history in The prelude (1805): books nine to thirteen -- Feminism and critical theory -- Reading the world: literary studies in the eighties -- Explanation and culture: marginalia -- The politics of interpretations -- French feminism in an international frame -- Scattered speculations on the question of value -- "Draupadi" by Mahasweta Devi -- Subaltern studies: deconstructing historiography -- "Breast-giver" by Mahasweta Devi -- A literary representation of the subaltern: a woman's text from the Third World.

In 'In Other Worlds', Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the leading and most influential cultural theorists working today, analyzes the relationship between language, women & culture in both Western & non-Western contexts.

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