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Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, 1942-. Death of a discipline. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003, 1st printing number line ending in 1, xii, 128pp., near fine dust-jacket, fresh attractive copy, orange hardcover, appears unused, slightest bit of dust or foxing on top foredge. Wellek Library lectures at the University of California, Irvine. - "For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standarized "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 literatures at the university? Spivak demonstrates how critics interested in social justice should pay close attention to literary form and offers new interpretations of classics such as Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Through close readings of texts not only in English, French, and German but also in Arabic and Bengali, Spivak practices what she preaches.". 9780231129442 ISBN 0231129440.
