Outside in the Teaching Machine by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
A collection of essays on works of literature, such as Salman Rushdie's controversial Satanic Verses, and twentieth century thinkers, such as Jacques Derrida and Karl Marx. It questions and deconstructs power structures where ever they operate.'Outside in the Teaching Machine is a necessary guide to responsible reading and teachingWhether literary texts such as Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses and Coetzee’s Foe, philosophy, or films, Spivak’s indefatigable in her questioning of contemporary pieties and in insisting that it is the study of culture that "can help us chart the production of versions of reality".' – Jean Franco, Columbia University
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942- ) is one of the world's leading writers on culture and 'the postcolonial.' She is currently the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities and the Director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780415964821 |
| ISBN 10 | 0415964822 |
| Title | Outside in the Teaching Machine |
| Author | Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak |
| Series | Routledge Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 2008-09-11 |
| Number of pages | 376 |
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