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.

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
• Editore: Columbia University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 01.08.2023
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata
• EAN: 9780231207225
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20722-5
• Numero di pagine: 160
• Serie: The Wellek Library Lectures
• Categorie: 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