In other worlds
Subtitle: essays in cultural politics
By: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ; with a new introduction by the author.
Edition: Routledge classics ed.
Series: Routledge classics
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9780415389563
Subjects: Culture; Feminism and literature; Women and literature; Feminist criticism; Culture -- Aspect sociologique; Littérature féministe -- Histoire et critique; Femmes et littérature; Critique féministe
Description: In this classic work, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the leading and most influential cultural theorists working today, analyzes the relationship between language, women and culture in both Western and non-Western contexts. Developing an original integration of powerful contemporary methodologies {u2013} deconstruction, Marxism and feminism {u2013} Spivak turns this new model on major debates in the study of literature and culture, thus ensuring that In Other Worlds has become a valuable tool for studying our own and other worlds of culture.
Notes: "First published 1998 by Routledge"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-409).
Table of contents: title: The letter as cutting edge; title: Finding feminist readings: Dante-Yeats; title: Unmaking and making in To the lighthouse; title: Sex and history in The prelude (1805): books nine to thirteen; title: Feminism and critical theory; title: Reading the world: literary studies in the eighties; title: Explanation and culture: marginalia; title: The politics of interpretations; title: French feminism in an international frame; title: Scattered speculations on the question of value; title: "Draupadi" by Mahasweta Devi; title: Subaltern studies: deconstructing historiography; title: "Breast-giver" by Mahasweta Devi; title: A literary representation of the subaltern: a woman's text from the Third World.