The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues - Softcover

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415901707 ISBN 13: 9780415901703

Publisher: Routledge, 1990

Synopsis

Gayatri Spivak, one of our best known cultural and literary theorists, addresses a vast range of political questions with both pen and voice. The Post-Colonial Critic brings together a selection of interviews and discussions in which she has taken part over the past five years; together they articulate some of the most compelling politico-theoretical issues of the present. In these lively texts, students of Spivak's work will identify her unmistakeable voice as she speaks on questions of representation; the politicization of deconstruction; the situations of post-colonial critics; pedagogical responsibility; and political strategies. Published here for the first time is an engaging battle with John Searle (first broadcast on British television) on the status of deconstruction; other selections are culled from small, hard-to-find journals.

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Review:

"A set of interviews that render Spivak's thought more accessible, "The Post-Colonial Critic could be considered a primer on constructing positionalities."
-"College Literature

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0415901707
• ISBN 13: 9780415901703
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176