Main entry:

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty.

Title & Author:

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

Edition:

First Harvard University Press paperback edition.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013.

Description:

xvi, 607 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Originally published as hardback: ©2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 a world literature -- Rethinking comparativism -- Sign and trace -- Tracing the skin of day.

Summary:

In essays on theory, translation, Marxism, gender, and world literature, and on writers such as Assia Djebar, J.M. Coetzee, and Rabindranath Tagore, Spivak argues for the social urgency of the humanities and renews the case for literary studies, imprisoned in the corporate university.

ISBN:

9780674072381 (pbk.)
0674072383 (pbk.)
(cloth ; alk. paper)
9780674051836
0674051831

Subject:

Aesthetics Study and teaching Philosophy.
Literature Study and teaching Philosophy.
Culture and globalization Philosophy.
Littérature Étude et enseignement Philosophie.
Culture et mondialisation Philosophie.
Philosophy.
Ästhetische Erziehung
Globalisierung

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292811
Call No.: BIB 237321
Status: Available