Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Autore di A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present
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Born in Calcutta, Spivak attended the University of Calcutta and Cornell University, where she studied with Paul de Man and completed a Ph.D. in comparative literature (1967). She has since taught at a number of academic institutions worldwide, most recently at Columbia University. Her critical mostra altro interests are wide-ranging: she has written on literature, film, Marxism, feminism, deconstruction, historiography, psychoanalysis, colonial discourse and postcolonialism, translation, and pedagogy East and West. She argues forcefully that these disciplinary and theoretical categories must each be articulated in ways that do not "interrupt" each other, bringing them to "crisis." Spivak's own work is resistant to any easy categorization. Her first book, Myself I Must Remake: Life and Poetry of W. B. Yeats (1974), did not have the impact of her second publication, the 1976 translation and long foreword to deconstructive philosopher Jacques Derrida's (see Vol. 4) De la grammatologie (Of Grammatology), which established her as a theorist of note. Since then Spivak has concentrated on examining deconstruction and postcolonialism, and its implications for feminist and Marxist theory. She engages not so much the specifics of colonial rule as the forms that neocolonialism currently assumes, both in the intellectual exchanges of the First World academy and in the socioeconomic traffic between the industrialized and developing nations. In the last decade, Spivak has been associated with revisionist, post-Marxist historians who have sought to challenge the elitist presuppositions of South Asian history, whether colonial or nationalist. Her contributions include theoretical essays and translations of the Bengali writer Mahasweta Devi. Most recently, Spivak has published essays on translation and more translations of Mahasweta Devi's stories. She has also given a number of important interviews on political and theoretical issues, many of which have been collected in The Post-Colonial Critic (1990). (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Crítica da razão pós-colonial 1 copia
Jacques Derrida: Of Grammatology 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory, and Critique (2002) — Collaboratore — 33 copie
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- Data di nascita
- 1942-02-24
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- India (birth)
- Luogo di nascita
- Ballygunge, Kolkata, India
- Istruzione
- Girton College, Cambridge
Cornell University (Ph.D|1967)
Presidency College, Calcutta (B.A.|1959) - Attività lavorative
- professor
- Organizzazioni
- Columbia University
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2017)
Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosphy (2012)
Padma Bhushan (2013)
Lifetime Scholarly Achievement from the Modern Language Association of America (2018)
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- Voto
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- ISBN
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Basically, the discussion touches upon too many issues, effectively lacking focus. It might still be read as an introduction of some of the main issues and introduction to some of the main thinkers in this area.
I think academia has moved on to viewing nationalism and the issue of the nation-state in a broader context of citizen theory, which as a framework is much more apt to address real-world problems while the nation-state issue seems to be somewhat outdated, despite the fact that nationalism is still widespread.
Perhaps this lack of focus is also caused by the fact that on the first page, in her opening remark Judith Butler asks why "are we bringing together comparative literature and global states" while in the subsequent discussion there is no attention for writers, except for philosophers and social scientists.
Generally, I am very interested in dialogue / interview publications, but perhaps for this topic this format is less suitable, or could have benefitted from a more structured approach.… (altro)