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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.
List 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
About the author
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 ofinterviews), Outside in the Teaching Machine, and most recently the translator of Imaginary Maps: Three Storiesby Mahasweta Devi. All are published by Routledge. DonnaLandry and Gerald MacLean are Associate Professors of English at Wayne State University.
Summary
The Spivak Reader offers a careful selection of this major critic's work, making it accessible to as wide an audience as possible. Many of the pieces have not previously been published in Spivak's earlier books.
