The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of Gayati Chakravorty Spivak
Language: English
Pages: 344
ISBN: 0415910013
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Among the foremost feminist critics to have emerged to international eminence over the last fifteen years, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has relentlessly challenged the high ground of established theoretical discourse in literary and cultural studies. Although her rigorous reading of various authors has often rendered her work difficult terrain for those unfamiliar with poststructuralism, this collection makes significant strides in explicating Spivak's complicated theories of reading.
which one mustn't celebrate, but toward which one has a deconstructive position, as it were. In order for there to be an all-India voice, we have had to dehegemonize English as one of the Indian languages. Yet it must be said that, as a literary medium, it is in the hands of people who are enough at home in standard English as to be able to use Indian English only as the medium of protest, as mockery or teratology; and sometimes as no more than local color, necessarily from above. So, yes, there
mansion as the favored sons do, is not a good argument. It's like saying, people who have never had the benefits of capitalism should choose capitalism. Everything has to happen at the same time, and the deprived must also undertake and perform the critique of capitalism. One the broad scale, nationalism, for example, fetishizes the goal of winning, decolonization. Once it is won, the people want really an entry into the haunted house inhabited by the colonizers, a house that "the best people"
the beginning of an ethical relation to the Other. ETHICS ARE NOT A PROBLEM OF KNOWLEDGE BUT A CALL OF RELATIONSHIP (WITHOUT RELATIONSHIP, AS LIMIT CASE) In "Echo" (see p. 175), Spivak outlines a formulation of ethics through a decipherable instance of the ethical relation in the myth of Echo and Narcissus. Spivak wonders how it is that Freud and others have attributed narcissism primarily to women, when Narcissus was a boy. Where is Echo, the woman in the story? Reading Echo in all her
reference formats as far as it has been possible to do so without significantly altering the style of the original. For example, in order to preserve the historical specificity of the original publication of "Revolutions That As Yet Have No Model" in 1980, we have left quotations and references to the 1977 publication, in Glyph, of Samuel Weber's and Jeffrey Mehlman's translation of Derrida's "Signature Event Context" and Weber's translation of "Limited Inc." In subsequent citations of these
Resistance can indeed be powerfully and persuasively coded in the form of the manifestation of freedom, but there is no getting around the fact that by privileging that particular coding, we are isolating a crucial narrow sense and cutting off the tremendous, unmotivated monitory force of the general. Speaking to an interlocutor who would clearly incline to such patterns of privilege, Foucault puts the case firmly yet tactfully: Every power relationship implies, at lest in potentia [and this is a