Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: In Other Words

Sangeeta Ray, a leading postcolonial feminist critic, provides a significant theoretical and critical engagement with the work of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Spivak was first catapulted to fame as the translator and interpreter of Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology , and subsequently became instrumental in creating and shaping the field of postcolonial studies. This book outlines and engages with the central tenets of Spivak’s thought through a nuanced examination of the main themes of her work, including ethics, literature, feminism, pedagogy, postcoloniality, violence, and war. Ray adheres to the spirit of a Spivakian methodology as she traces and retraces the full development of Spivak’s thought from her very early work to her most recent essays.

Acknowledgments. . 1. WRITING AUTOBIOGRAPHY,WRITING SPIVAK:. IN LIEU OF AN INTRODUCTION. . 2. READING LITERATURE,TEACHING LITERATURE:. WHITHER SOULMAKING?. . 3. READING SINGLUARITY,READING DIFFERENCE. AN ETHICS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE. . 4. READING WOMAN,READING ESSENCE:. WHITHER GENDER. Bibliography. Index

Sangeeta Ray is Professor of English at the University of Maryland at College Park. She is the author of En–Gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives (2000) and the co–editor of A Companion to Postcolonial Studies (Wiley–Blackwell, 2000).

"Overall, In Other Words represents an impressive effort by Ray to link, compress but also carefully reread a wide swath of Spivak′s work. At times disorienting in its scope like the theorist′s own work, Ray′s book offers a sustained engagement with some of Spivak′s most valuable insights and has me returning to her oeuvre with fresh eyes." (Postcolonial Text, 2011)