TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spivak,Gayatri Chakravorty
TI  - Death of a discipline
T2  - The Wellek Library lectures in critical theory
SN  - 0231129440
AV  - PN865 .S68 2003
U1  - 809 21
PY  - 2003///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Comparative literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Ch. 1; Crossing Borders --; Ch. 2; Collectivities --; Ch. 3; Planetarity
N2  - "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 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."--BOOK JACKET
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