Other Asias - Hardcover

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1405102063 ISBN 13: 9781405102063

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008

Synopsis

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.

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• 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

About this title

Book Description:

In this major intervention into the fraught issues generated by ideas of Asia, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak collects her key essays, all of which represent the theorist at her most troubling and powerful in challenging post-structuralist and postcolonial assumptions. Among the works featured in this volume are: `Foucault and Najibullah', in which through her bold reading of `ab-use' of the Enlightenment as `the public use of reason', she exposes Foucault's unlocated `critique of governmentality, and addresses what is today suddenly topical: the playing out of Kipling's `Great Game', from the perspective of the subaltern A hitherto unpublished version of `Moving Devi', in which she addresses the authority of autobiography `Responsibility', in which she explores the Other and the Ethical `Our Asias', in which she examines the concept of `Asia', stressing the need to speak of the continent as plural rather than singular.

From the Back Cover:

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:

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• “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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1405102063
• ISBN 13: 9781405102063
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 376