Death of a Discipline - Twentieth Anniversary Edition

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak declares the death of comparative literature as we know it and sounds an urgent call for a ¿new comparative literature,¿ in which the discipline is reborn.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition
Acknowledgments
1. Crossing Borders
2. Collectivities
3. Planetarity
Notes
Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor in the Humanities and a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. Her many books include A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present (1999) and An Aesthetic Education in the Age of Globalization (2012). She is also the translator of Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology and several works by Mahasweta Devi.

Zusammenfassung

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak declares the death of comparative literature as we know it and sounds an urgent call for a “new comparative literature,” in which the discipline is reborn.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 11.07.2023
• EAN: 9780231207232
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20723-2
• Seiten: 160
• Serie: The Wellek Library Lectures
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature, Colonialism & imperialism, Literature: history & criticism, Colonialism and imperialism, Literary theory, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Literary Criticism, Decolonisation and postcolonial studies