An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

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$24.00 • £19.95 • €21.50

ISBN 9780674072381

Publication Date: 05/06/2013

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624 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

42 halftones

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Preface
Introduction
1. The Burden of English
2. Who Claims Alterity?
3. How to Read a “Culturally Different” Book
4. The Double Bind Starts to Kick In
5. Culture: Situating Feminism
6. Teaching for the Times
7. Acting Bits/Identity Talk
8. Supplementing Marxism
9. What’s Left of Theory?
10. Echo
11. Translation as Culture
12. Translating into English
13. Nationalism and the Imagination
14. Resident Alien
15. Ethics and Politics in Tagore, Coetzee, and Certain Scenes of Teaching
16. Imperative to Re-imagine the Planet
17. Reading with Stuart Hall in “Pure” Literary Terms
18. Terror: A Speech after 9/11
19. Harlem
20. Scattered Speculations on the Subaltern and the Popular
21. World Systems and the Creole
22. The Stakes of a World Literature
23. Rethinking Comparativism
24. Sign and Trace
25. Tracing the Skin of Day
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

Awards & Accolades

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Is Winner of the 2012 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy

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