Other Asias

Other Asias
ISBN: 978-1-405-10206-3
Jan 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
376 pages
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$121.95
Description
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
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
- Major work from one of the world’s most distinguished literary and cultural theorists
- Intervenes in the fraught issues generated by ideas of Asia
- Challenges the reader to re-think Asia, in its political and cultural complexity, in the global South and in the metropole
- 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