An aesthetic education in the era of globalization / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.

Author/creator Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Descriptionxvi, 607 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011013286
ISBN9780674051836
ISBN0674051831

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks BH61 .S67 2012 ✔ Available Place Hold