In Other Worlds
豆瓣
Essays In Cultural Politics
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
简介
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. Spivak here develops an original integration of powerful contemporary methodologies - deconstruction, Marxism and feminism - turning this new model on major debates in the study of literature and culture. In Other Worlds considers questions of theory across a broad spectrum (what, for example, does "pluralism" mean?) while also engaging in ongoing debates with other leading figures of contemporary criticism: political philosophers such as Habermas and Althusser, psychoanalysts such as Julia Kristeva, legal theorists such as Ronald Dworkin, literary and social critics including Edward Said, Wayne Booth, Donald Davie, Helene Cixous and Jean-Joseph Goux. Spivak's work also explores the literary text: Dante, Yeats, Wordsworth and Coleridge, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Drabble and the Indian writer Mahasweta Devi.
contents
Foreword by Colin MacCabe
Author’s Note
One: Literature
1. The Letter as Cutting Edge
2. Finding Feminist Readings: Dante-Yeats
3. Unmaking and Making in To the Lighthouse
4. Sex and History in The Prelude (1805): Books Nine to Thirteen
5. Feminism and Critical Theory
Two: Into the World
6. Reading the Worlds: Literary Studies in the Eighties
7. Explanation and Culture: Marginalia
8. The Politics of Interpretations
9. French Feminism in an International Frame
10. Scattered Speculations on the Questions of Value
Three: Entering the Third World
11. "Draupadi" by Mahasweta Devi
12. Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography
13. "Breast-Giver" by Mahasweta Devi
14. A Literary Representation of the Subaltern: A Woman’s Text from the Third World
Notes