In Other Worlds (Routledge Classics)

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 - deconstruction, Marxism and feminism - 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. Review: 'A celebrity in academia ... [Spivak] creates a stir wherever she goes.' - The New York Times Table of Contents: Foreword by Colin MacCabe. Author's Note. One: Literature 1. The Letter as Cutting Edge 2. Finding Feminist Readings: Dante-Yeats 3. Unmaking and Making in To the Lighthouse 4. Sex and History in The Prelude (1805): Books Nine to Thirteen 5. Feminism and Critical Theory Two: Into the World 6. Reading the Worlds: Literary Studies in the Eighties 7. Explanation and Culture: Marginalia 8. The Politics of Interpretations 9. French Feminism in an International Frame 10. Scattered Speculations on the Questions of Value Three: Entering the Third World 11. 'Draupadi' by Mahasweta Devi 12. Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography 13. 'Breast-Giver' by Mahasweta Devi 14. A Literary Representation of the Subaltern: A Woman's Text from the Third World. Notes