Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ; with a new introduction by the author.
New York :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
[2006]
xxviii, 409 pages ;
20 cm.
Routledge classics
"First published 1989 by Routledge"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-409).
The letter as cutting edge -- Finding feminist readings: Dante-Yeats -- Unmaking and making in To the lighthouse -- Sex and history in the Prelude (1805): books nine to thirteen -- Feminism and critical theory -- Reading the Worlds: literary studies in the eighties -- Explanation and culture: marginalia -- The politics of interpretations -- French feminism in an international frame -- Scattered speculations on the questions of value -- "Draupadi" by Mahasweta Devi -- Subaltern studies: deconstructing historiography -- "Breast-giver" by Mahasweta Devi -- A literary representation of the Subaltern: a woman's text from the Third World.
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In this classic work, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the leading and most influential cultural theorists working today, analyzes the relationship between language, women and culture in both Western and non-Western contexts. Developing an original integration of powerful contemporary methodologies - deconstruction, Marxism and feminism - Spivak turns this new model on major debates in the study of literature and culture, thus ensuring that In Other Worlds has become a valuable tool for studying our own and other worlds of culture.