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An aesthetic education in the era of globalization / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
LIBRA BH61 .S67 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Culture and globalization.
- Philosophy.
- Literature--Study and teaching.
- Aesthetics--Study and teaching.
- Aesthetics--Study and teaching--Philosophy.
- Aesthetics.
- Literature--Study and teaching--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Culture and globalization--Philosophy.
- Penn Provenance:
- Moskowitz, Daniel B. (donor)
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 607 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- This collection of essays from renowned postcolonial scholar and literary critic Gayatri Chackravorty Spivak, examines the author's evolving views on the place of the aesthetic in the development of global culture and globalized cultures. The essays span a period of almost a quarter century and trace the development of Spivak's postcolonial theories into a new discussion of the role of world language and culture in the subjugation of national, ethnic, gender, and class identities. The text covers such topics as reading the "culturally different" text, culture and feminism, translation as culture, terror and speech after 9/11, and rethinking comparativism. Spivak is a professor of comparative literature at Columbia University. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- The burden of English
- Who claims alterity?
- How to read a "culturally different" book
- The double bind starts to kick in
- Culture: situating feminism
- Teaching for the times
- Acting bits/identity talk
- Supplementing Marxism
- What's left of theory?
- Echo
- Translation as culture
- Translating into English
- Nationalism and the imagination
- Resident alien
- Ethics and politics in Tagore, Coetzee, and certain scenes of teaching
- Imperative to re-imagine the planet
- Reading with Stuart Hall in "pure" literary terms
- Terror: a speech after 9/11
- Harlem
- Scattered speculations on the subaltern and the popular
- World systems and the creole
- The stakes of world literature
- Rethinking comparativism
- Sign and trace
- Tracing the skin of day.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries by Daniel B. Moskowitz in honor of Bert and Lilly Dee Moskowitz.
- ISBN:
- 0674051831
- 9780674051836
- OCLC:
- 709670313
- Publisher Number:
- 99947647638
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