Spivak Reader, The

Description:
Among the foremost feminist critics to have emerged to international eminence over the last fifteen years, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has relentlessly challenged the high ground of established theoretical discourse in literary and cultural studies. Although her rigorous reading of various authors has often rendered her work difficult terrain for those unfamiliar with poststructuralism, this collection makes significant strides in explicating Spivak's complicated theories of reading.

Table of Contents:
Introduction 'Reading Spivak,' by the editors 1. Bonding In Difference, interview with Alfred Arteaga (1993/4) 2. Explanation and Culture: Marginalia (1979) 3. Feminism and Critical Theory (1985) 4. Revolutions That As Yet Have No Model: Derrida's Limited Inc. (1980) 5. Scattered Speculations on the Question of Value (1985) 6. More on Power/Knowledge (1992) 7. Echo (1993) 8. Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography (1985) 9. How to Teach a 'Culturally Different' Book (1991) 10. Translator's Preface and Afterword to Mahasweta Devi, Imaginary Maps (1994) 11. Subaltern Talk, interview with editors (1993/4) 12. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: A Checklist of Publications Index

Author Biography:
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is Avalon Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. She is the author of In Other Worlds, The Post-Colonial Critic (a book of interviews), Outside in the Teaching Machine, and most recently the translator of Imaginary Maps: Three Stories by Mahasweta Devi. All are published by Routledge. Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean are Associate Professors of English at Wayne State University.