Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak / Stephen Morton.

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TextLanguage: English Series: Routledge critical thinkersPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.Description: xii, 176 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

0415229340
9781032296494(pbk.)

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306 21

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Contents:

Cover Page Half Title page Series Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Why Spivak? Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak The Politics of Deconstruction The Question of Style Subaltern Studies Spivak and Feminism Spivak's Key Ideas Key Ideas Theory, Politics and the Question of Style The Worldliness of the Text Textuality and Worlding Critical Interruptions Setting Deconstruction to Work The ‘Translator's Preface' To of Grammatology Deconstruction and the Postcolonial Context Deconstruction and Other Worlds Deconstruction and Masterwords Deconstruction and Ethics Deconstructive Reading in Spivak's Thought Ethics, Politics and ‘The Setting to Work of Deconstruction' Learning from the Subaltern The Postcolonial Intellectual and Political Responsibility The Subaltern Deconstructing Historiography: Spivak's Critique of the Subaltern Studies Collective Subaltern Studies and the Question of Methodology Can the Subaltern Speak? Recovering Women's Histories in the Colonial Archives Sati and the Limits of Representation Sati and Anti-Colonial Insurgency Can the Subaltern Vote? ‘Third World' Women and Western Feminist Thought Feminism and the Question of Difference Unlearning and the Critique of Western Feminism French Feminism in An International Frame: Spivak on Kristeva The Geography of Female Sexuality ‘Three Women's Texts' and a Critique of Female Individualism Materialism and Value Rethinking Marx Reading Marx after Derrida From Nineteenth-Century European Capitalism to the Contemporary International Division of Labour Re-Thinking the Working-Class Body Spivak, Marx and the Labour Theory of Value The Critique of Economic Determinism Deconstructing Capital Colonialism, Postcolonialism and the Literary Text Spivak and Colonial Discourse Analysis The Rhetoric of Colonialism Kant and the Civilising Mission of Imperialism The Classic Text and British Imperialism: Jane Eyre Postcolonial Rewriting Re-Imagining History: Mahasweta Devi and the Literary Histories of Subaltern Women Women's Bodies in Revolt After Spivak The Future of Postcolonial Theory Marxist thought after Spivak Spivak and Transnational Feminism Reading the Subaltern Further Reading Works cited Index

Summary: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak offers an overtly political challenge to the way we think about literature and culture. As she highlights the many legacies of colonialism, she re-defines the ethical horizons of contemporary critical thought. This volume focuses on her key theoretical concepts, intellectual context and critical reception, providing an accessible introduction to one of the most important thinkers of our time. Stephen Morton introduces Spivak's crucial work through an analysis of such issues as: * methodology and Spivak's 'difficult' style * deconstructive strategies * third world women, the concept of the 'subaltern' and the critique of western feminism * re-reading Marx for the global capitalist era * Spivak's contribution to colonial discourse studies and postcolonial theory. Having examined the ways in which Spivak has transformed contemporary cultural theory, and in particular feminist and postcolonial thought, Morton concludes with a guide to reading Spivak's work and that of her critics. Essential for students of literature or cultural studies, this volume is the ideal companion for a first encounter with Spivak's remarkable texts.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-169) and index.

"Works by Spivak:" p. 144-160.

Cover Page
Half Title page
Series
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Series Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
Why Spivak?
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
The Politics of Deconstruction
The Question of Style
Subaltern Studies
Spivak and Feminism
Spivak's Key Ideas
Key Ideas
Theory, Politics and the Question of Style
The Worldliness of the Text
Textuality and Worlding
Critical Interruptions
Setting Deconstruction to Work
The ‘Translator's Preface' To of Grammatology
Deconstruction and the Postcolonial Context
Deconstruction and Other Worlds
Deconstruction and Masterwords
Deconstruction and Ethics
Deconstructive Reading in Spivak's Thought
Ethics, Politics and ‘The Setting to Work of Deconstruction'
Learning from the Subaltern
The Postcolonial Intellectual and Political Responsibility
The Subaltern
Deconstructing Historiography: Spivak's Critique of the Subaltern Studies Collective
Subaltern Studies and the Question of Methodology
Can the Subaltern Speak?
Recovering Women's Histories in the Colonial Archives
Sati and the Limits of Representation
Sati and Anti-Colonial Insurgency
Can the Subaltern Vote?
‘Third World' Women and Western Feminist Thought
Feminism and the Question of Difference
Unlearning and the Critique of Western Feminism
French Feminism in An International Frame: Spivak on Kristeva
The Geography of Female Sexuality
‘Three Women's Texts' and a Critique of Female Individualism
Materialism and Value
Rethinking Marx
Reading Marx after Derrida
From Nineteenth-Century European Capitalism to the Contemporary International Division of Labour
Re-Thinking the Working-Class Body
Spivak, Marx and the Labour Theory of Value
The Critique of Economic Determinism
Deconstructing Capital
Colonialism, Postcolonialism and the Literary Text
Spivak and Colonial Discourse Analysis
The Rhetoric of Colonialism
Kant and the Civilising Mission of Imperialism
The Classic Text and British Imperialism: Jane Eyre
Postcolonial Rewriting
Re-Imagining History: Mahasweta Devi and the Literary Histories of Subaltern Women
Women's Bodies in Revolt
After Spivak
The Future of Postcolonial Theory
Marxist thought after Spivak
Spivak and Transnational Feminism
Reading the Subaltern
Further Reading
Works cited
Index

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak offers an overtly political challenge to the way we think about literature and culture. As she highlights the many legacies of colonialism, she re-defines the ethical horizons of contemporary critical thought. This volume focuses on her key theoretical concepts, intellectual context and critical reception, providing an accessible introduction to one of the most important thinkers of our time. Stephen Morton introduces Spivak's crucial work through an analysis of such issues as: * methodology and Spivak's 'difficult' style * deconstructive strategies * third world women, the concept of the 'subaltern' and the critique of western feminism * re-reading Marx for the global capitalist era * Spivak's contribution to colonial discourse studies and postcolonial theory. Having examined the ways in which Spivak has transformed contemporary cultural theory, and in particular feminist and postcolonial thought, Morton concludes with a guide to reading Spivak's work and that of her critics. Essential for students of literature or cultural studies, this volume is the ideal companion for a first encounter with Spivak's remarkable texts.

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