Other Asias [Paperback]

In this major intervention into the 'Asian Century', Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak challenges the reader to re-think Asia, in its political and cultural complexity, in the global South and in the metropole.

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• Major work from one of the world’s most distinguished literary and cultural theorists
  
• Intervenes in the fraught issues generated by ideas of Asia
  
• Featured essays include “Foucault and Najibullah,” “Moving Devi,” “Responsibility,” and “Megacity”
  
• Other chapters focus on, among other things, Human Rights, and the turbulent present of the Caucasus
  
• Essential reading for anyone interested in postcolonialism, and devotees of Spivak’s writing

Acknowledgments.

Foreword.

1. Righting Wrongs – 2002: Accessing Democracy among the Aboriginals.

2. Responsibility – 1992: Testing Theory in the Plains.

3. 1994: Will Postcolonialism Travel?.

4. 1996: Foucault and Najibullah.

5. Megacity – 1997: Testing Theory in Cities.

6. Moving Devi – 1997: The Non-Resident and the Expatriate.

7. Our Asias – 2001: How to Be a Continentalist.

Position without Identity –2004: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak by Yan Hairong.

Notes.

Index

“Other Asias is an eloquent plea for a pedagogy of continental scope that does not evade or erode the singular, ‘textured’ life, thought and work of geographical regions and political minorities. ThelI