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Readings
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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Description for Readings
Hardback. Throughout her distinguished career, the author has sought to locate and confront shifting forms of social and cultural oppression. In this book, she elaborates a utopian vision for the kind of deep and investigative reading that can develop a will for peaceful social justice in coming generations. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 328.
Throughout her distinguished career, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has sought to locate and confront shifting forms of social and cultural oppression. As her work shows, the best method for doing so is through extended practice in the ethics of reading. In Readings, Spivak elaborates a utopian vision for the kind of deep and investigative reading that can develop a will for peaceful social justice in coming generations. Through her own analysis of specific works, Spivak demonstrates modes in which such a vision might be achieved. In the examples here, she pays close attention to signposts of character, action, and place in ... Read more
Throughout her distinguished career, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has sought to locate and confront shifting forms of social and cultural oppression. As her work shows, the best method for doing so is through extended practice in the ethics of reading. In Readings, Spivak elaborates a utopian vision for the kind of deep and investigative reading that can develop a will for peaceful social justice in coming generations. Through her own analysis of specific works, Spivak demonstrates modes in which such a vision might be achieved. In the examples here, she pays close attention to signposts of character, action, and place in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
182
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857422088
SKU
V9780857422088
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About Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is university professor at Columbia University and the author of many books, including Nationalism and the Imagination and Harlem, both published by Seagull Books.
Reviews for Readings
"A celebrity in academia... [Spivak] creates a stir wherever she goes." (New York Times)"