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Postcolonial Reason and Its Critique
Deliberations on Gayatri Spivak's Thoughts
Edited by Purushottama Bilimoria and Dina Al-Kassim
256 pages
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215x140mm
978-0-19-807556-1
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Hardback
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July 2013 (estimated)
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- Discusses the ideas and influence of a leading theoretician-Gayatri Spivak.
- Contributors are well-known
Gayatri Spivak is a leading theoretician in social science research. Her theories and methods have not only been used in the fields of cultural studies and philosophy of language, but have also been widely applied in the fields of anthropology and political studies. This volume studies and analyses the range of the impact of her approach to postcolonial studies. The contributors analyse, explore and expand the domains of her ideas and formulations and discuss the influence of Kant and Matilal in her writings. The essays deal with Spivak's arguments on feminist studies, as well as the techniques of reading texts brought forth by her. They also debate the implications of her
theories in cultural studies, ethnography, and anthropology, the volume is detailed guide to contemporary thought. It also includes Gayatri Spivak's response to the issues and questions raised. The introduction highlights the larger convergences that Spivak brings together.
This book will interest of scholars and students of philosophy, history, subaltern/postcolonial/ cultural studies, gender studies, and political science.
Readership: This book will interest of scholars and students of philosophy, history, subaltern/postcolonial/ cultural studies, gender studies, and political science.
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Edited by Purushottama Bilimoria, Deakin University, and Dina Al-Kassim, University of California
Purushottama Bilimoria is also Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne University.
Dina Al-Kassim is Affiliate Faculty, Women's Studies, University of California. Contributors:
Purushottama Bilimoria is Professor of Philosophy, Deakin University.;
Dina Al-Kassim is Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, University of California.;
Ritu Birla is Associate Professor of History, University of Toronto.;
Forest Pyle is Associate Professor of English, University of Oregon.;
Thomas Keenan is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Bard College.;
Mark Sanders is Professor of Comparative Literature, New York University.;
Drucilla Cornell is Professor of Political Science, Comparative Literature, and Women's Studies, Rutgers University.;
Mieke Bal is Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Professor.;
Maria Koundoura is Associate Professor in the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College.;
Chetan Bhatt is Director, Centre for the Study of Human Rights, London School of Economics.;
Adrian Parr teaches at Savannah College of Art and Design.;
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor, Columbia University.
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Preface by Purushottama Bilimoria
Introduction by Dina Al-Kassim
1: Postcolonial Critique of Reason: Spivak Between Kant and Matilal by Purushottama Bilimoria
2: The Face of Foreclosure by Dina Al-Kassim
3: History and the Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Limits, Secret, Value by Ritu Birla
4: 'By a Certain Subreption': Gayatri Spivak and the 'Lever' of the Aesthetic by Forest Pyle
5: The Push and Pull of Rights and Responsibilities by Thomas Keenan
6: . Representation: Reading Otherwise by Mark Sanders
7: The Art of Witnessing and the Community of Ought To Be by Drucilla Cornell
8: Three-Way Misreading by Mieke Bal
9: From a Postcolonial Critique of Reason to a Critique of Postcolonial Reason by Stephen Morton
10: Rethinking Rights: Spivak, Kant, and the Vision of Cultures 'to Come' by Maria Koundoura
11: Kant's 'Raw Man' and the Miming of Primitivism: Spivak's Critique of Postcolonial Reason by Chetan Bhatt
12: Listening to Child Detainees in Australian Immigration Detention Centers by Adrian Parr
13: Response: Panel of Papers of Crtitique of Postcolonial Reason by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Notes on Contributors
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