Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Live Theory

By Mark Sanders

Book Overview

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Live Theory offers a concise, comprehensive and accessible introduction to the themes central to the thought of one of the world's most provocative and original theorists. The book concentrates on Spivak's engagement, in theory and practice, with deconstruction, Marxism, feminism, and issues of postcoloniality and globalization, and makes clear the extent of her impact in the fields of postcolonial and literary theory. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Live Theory is a key resource for anyone studying this pioneering thinker. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Live Theory offers a concise, comprehensive and accessible introduction to the themes central to the thought of one of the world's most provocative and original theorists. The book concentrates on Spivak's engagement, in theory and practice, with deconstruction, Marxism, feminism, and issues of postcoloniality and globalization, and makes clear the extent of her impact in the fields of postcolonial and literary theory. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Live Theory is a key resource for anyone studying this pioneering thinker.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826463185
• ISBN13: 9780826463180
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"