Sangeeta Ray. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: In Other Words. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 150 pp. [Book review]
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Cybelle McFadden, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Undergraduate and Graduate Advisor in French (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
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Abstract: Through her essays, books, interviews, and lectures, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has established herself as one of the most influential contemporary critical and literary theorists whose work engages with the interstices of postcolonialism, feminism, Marxism, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis. Spivak’s body of work in different iterations concerns itself with representation, self-representation, the Other, subject positionality, and the politics of the postcolonial and multicultural. In Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: In Other Words, Sangeeta Ray skillfully takes on the task of articulating and unpacking the theoretical and political stakes of Spivak—a daunting proposition indeed. Ray’s initial trepidation with which she opens the book proves to be unnecessarily self-conscious as she astutely synthesizes Spivak’s literary and theoretical contributions. Ray effectively imitates Spivak’s methodology to illustrate both Spivak’s influence on her thinking and the manner in which Spivak’s critical intervention necessitates active engagement by all participants, the critic and reader alike.
Sangeeta Ray. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: In Other Words. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 150 pp. [Book review]
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature 35.2 (2011): 365–367.
- Language: English
- Date: 2011
- Keywords
- book review, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak