In Other Worlds Essays In Cultural Politics [Paperback]

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 thatIn Other Worldshas become a valuable tool for studying our own and other worlds of culture.

Foreword by Colin MacCabe.  Authors 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 Womans Text from the Third World.  Notes

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, (b. 1942) Regarded to be one of the most important figureheads of postcolonial studies. Born in India, she is a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University l3C