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Death of a discipline / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty.
- Series:
- Wellek Library lecture series at the University of California, Irvine.
- The Wellek Library lectures in critical theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comparative literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (83 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <![CDATA[<div><P>For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized ""rules"" of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. Today she remains one of the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences. In this new book she declares the death of comparative literature as we know it and sounds an urgent call for a ""new comparative literature,"" in which the discipline is given new life -- one that is not appropriated and determined by the market.</P><P>In the era of globalization, when mammoth projects of worl
- Contents:
- Crossing borders
- Collectivities
- Planetarity.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231503235
- 0231503237
- OCLC:
- 828795453
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