Other Asias by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Other Asias by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

In this major intervention into the 'Asian Century', Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak challenges the reader to re-think Asia, in its political and cultural complexity, in the global South and in the metropole.

“Other Asias is an eloquent plea for a pedagogy of continental scope that does not evade or erode the singular, ‘textured’ life, thought and work of geographical regions and political minoritiesThe exemplary courage and extraordinary imagination that have distinguished Spivak's work are now engaged in rich reflections on the political art of humanistic education.”
Homi K. Bhabha, Harvard University

“This deeply passionate, ethical, and political book tells us that we must pluralize Asia because it is only in a pluralized world that we can imagine a more just one.”
Eduardo Cadava, Princeton University

“Spivak’s postcolonial perspective here offers an incomparable understanding of Asia in its multiplicity of differences, a tour-de-force from one of our era’s most brilliant engaged and critical thinkers.”
Robert J. C. Young, New York University

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s reputation was first established with her translation of and preface to Jacques Derrida’s De la grammatologie in 1976. Subsequently, she helped to establish the field of postcolonial studies and became a leading postcolonial theorist. Her key publications include In Other Worlds (1987), The Post-Colonial Critic (1990), Outside in the Teaching Machine (1993), and A Critique of Postcolonial Reason (1999).

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ISBN 13	9781405102070
ISBN 10	1405102071
Title	Other Asias
Author	Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published	2007-12-03
Number of pages	384
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