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Death of a Discipline - Twentieth Anniversary Edition

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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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

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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.

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