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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most influential figures in contemporary critical theory. However, her hugely important theoretical work is often hard to approach for the first time. This introduction offers a stepping stone to such crucial primary texts as In Other Worlds and A Critique of Postcolonial Reason. Spivak is perhaps best known for her overtly political use of contemporary cultural and critical theories to challenge the legacy of colonialism on the way we read and think about literature and culture. Always cutting-edge, always provocative, Spivak champions the voices and texts of those marginalised by western culture and takes on many of the dominant ideas of the contemporary era. This volume examines her work through the issues of style, deconstruction, the subaltern, ‘Third World’ women and western feminism, materialism and value, postcolonialism and the literary text.
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