Spivak and postcolonialism
Subtitle: exploring allegations of textuality
By: Taoufiq Sakhkhane
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780230298910
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Critics; Criticism and interpretation; LITERARY CRITICISM / Gay & Lesbian; Comparative literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic; Postcolonialism in literature; Themes, motives
Description: This book explores several fundamental issues in postcolonial studies through the work of one of its most authoritative, if contentious, figures: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. It explores a number of issues, including the question of representing the other, strategies adopted to resist such representations, and the questions of identity, nationalism, colonialism, feminism, subaltern studies and the English language within the context of Empire. Providing a critique of the paradoxes and conflicts which appear in Spivak's work, the book offers a new approach to postcolonial studies.
Notes: Includes index.