Other Asias

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. Among the chapters in this volume are: Foucault and Najibullah, in which she looks at Afghanistan in its own historical and gendered narrative Moving Devi, in which she addresses the authority of autobiography and writes as a diasporic Responsibility, in which she examines the limits of theory upon the floodplains of Bangladesh Megacity, where she reads cyberliteracy in Bangalore. Other chapters focus on, among other things, Human Rights, and the turbulent present of the Caucasus.

Acknowledgments.

Foreword.

1. Righting Wrongs 2002: Accessing Democracy among the Aboriginals.

2. Responsibility 1992: Testing Theory in the Plains.

3. 1994: Will Postcolonialism Travel?.

4. 1996: Foucault and Najibullah.

5. Megacity 1997: Testing Theory in Cities.

6. Moving Devi 1997: The Non–Resident and the Expatriate.

7. Our Asias 2001: How to Be a Continentalist.

Position without Identity 2004: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak by Yan Hairong.

Notes.

Index

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).