The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, DialoguesGayatri Spivak, one of our best known cultural and literary theorists, addresses a vast range of political questions with both pen and voice in this unique book. 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 and self-representation, the politicization of deconstruction; the situations of post-colonial critics; pedagogical responsibility; and political strategies. |
Contents
Interviews Strategies and Dialogues | 1 |
The End of Politics? | 17 |
3 Strategy Identity Writing | 35 |
4 The Problem of Cultural Selfrepresentation | 50 |
5 Questions of Multiculturalism | 59 |
6 The Postcolonial Critic | 67 |
7 Postmarked Calcutta India | 75 |
8 Practical Politics of the Open End | 95 |
9 The Intervention Interview | 113 |
10 Interview with Radical Philosophy | 133 |
11 Negotiating the Structures of Violence | 138 |
Political Commitment and the Postmodern Critic | 152 |
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The Post-colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Limited preview - 1990 |
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