Death of a Discipline

Name: Death of a Discipline
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ISBN: 9780231129459

ISBN-10: 0231129459

ISBN-13: 9780231129459

Edition: 2005

Authors: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

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For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "rules" of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. Today she remains one of the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences. In this new book she declares the death of comparative literature as we know it and sounds an urgent call for a "new comparative literature," in which the discipline is given new life -one that is not appropriated and determined by the market. In the era of globalization, when mammoth projects of world literature in translation are being undertaken in the United States, how can we protect the multiplicity of languages and…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 4/26/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 136
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.27" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivakis university professor in the humanities at Columbia University and the author of many books, including The Post-Colonial Critic, Nationalism and the Imagination and, with Judith Butler, Who Sings the Nation-State?, the last two also published by Seagull Books.




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