Death of a Discipline

by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231129459
• ISBN13: 9780231129459
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.2"