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.

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.

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.

• Major work from one of the world’s most distinguished literary and cultural theorists

• Intervenes in the fraught issues generated by ideas of Asia

• Featured essays include “Foucault and Najibullah,” “Moving Devi,” “Responsibility,” and “Megacity”

• Other chapters focus on, among other things, Human Rights, and the turbulent "present" of the Caucasus

• Essential reading for anyone interested in postcolonialism, and devotees of Spivak’s writing

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).

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