Bøger af Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

A lively discussion between two eminent Indian academics that examines what it means to be an Indian. Through a stimulating dialogue, two old friends trace the history of the idea of India through digressions, anecdotes, and observations. Historian Romila Thapar and theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak reflect on the challenges posed by essentialism and exclusion whenever cultures attempt to define and assert themselves. They also emphasize the role of education in fostering a more inclusive and accurate understanding of the nation's complex history. Their conversation revolves around the narratives that have shaped Indian identity--from Vedic times to the present--and those whose voices and visions for this land remain unheard and unseen. Ranging from nationalism to religion and beyond, TheIdea of India discusses an urgent question: What does it mean to be an Indian in contemporary society?

Verden er i forandring, de gamle koordinater for klassekampen er ubrugelige, og sammenbruddet af den senkapitalistiske verdensorden er helt åbenlyst i gang, hvad enten man kan lide det eller ej.I forlængelse af en venstrekommunistisk tradition for historisk analyse og kritisk tænkning, fra Rosa Luxemburg over Karl Korsch og Walter Benjamin til Guy Debord og Jacques Camatte og frem til Roswitha Scholz, sætter vi fokus på klassekampens historiske og nuværende repræsentationsformer. Strejken, som vi ønsker at pointere med Luxemburg, er ikke blot et pressionsmiddel i kampen for bedre lønvilkår men en historisk specifik form for konfliktoptrapning i en uforsonlig klassekamp, der ændrer sig organisk i takt med kapitalakkumulationen. Spørgsmålet er så, om strejken fortsat har en rolle at spille i dag, hinsides traditionelle forestillinger om arbejderklassen og klassekampen?

The world's most renowned critical theorist-who defined the field of postcolonial studies-has radically reoriented her thinking. Finding the neat polarities of tradition and modernity, colonial and postcolonial, no longer sufficient, she argues that aesthetic education is the last available instrument for implementing global justice and democracy.

A seminal text from one of the leading cultural and literary theorists. This selection of interviews and discussions articulates some of the most compelling politico-theoretical issues of the present day.

A collection of essays on works of literature, such as Salman Rushdie's controversial "Satanic Verses", and twentieth century thinkers, such as Jacques Derrida and Karl Marx. It questions and deconstructs power structures where ever they operate.

Are the "culture wars" over? When did they begin? What is their relationship to gender struggle and the dynamics of class? In her first full treatment of postcolonial studies, a field that she helped define, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the world's foremost literary theorists, poses these questions from within the postcolonial enclave.

For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "e;rules"e; 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 "e;new comparative literature,"e; 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.Acclaim for Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and her work:"e;[Spivak] pioneered the study in literary theory of non-Western women."e;-Edward W. Said"e;She has probably done more long-term political good, in pioneering feminist and post-colonial studies within global academia, than almost any of her theoretical colleagues."e; -Terry Eagleton"e;A celebrity in academia... create[s] a stir wherever she goes."e; -The New York Times

Analyzes the relationship between language, women and culture in both Western and non-Western contexts. Developing an integration of ontemporary methodologies - deconstruction, Marxism and feminism, this work turns explains major debates in the study of literature and culture. It is a useful tool for studying our own and other worlds of culture.

Monsieur Antipyrine åbner en ny genetisk massegrav i det kapitalistisk-postmarxistiske imaginære og nærmeste omegn: en virkelig fesen, sen, blå-i-blå affære. Vi kan slet ikke blive ortolitterært-tænksomme eller akademisk-normative eller kunstnerisk-klæbrige eller dumkritisk-medløberiske eller poetisk-idiotiske nok. Vi kan ikke tilstrækkeligt bekræfte al den vederhæftige kanonicitet, på størrelse med et fordøjelsessystem-forvekslet-med-et-kønsorgan, eller alt det mægtig, mægtig sukkersubtile. Og ganske specielt ikke når det drejer sig om dem, der for eksempel måtte bilde sig noget særligt ind vedrørende nogen som helst fordrejnings strategiske habitus, status eller vomitus lige nu. Se blot alle disse fodnoter hos Monsieur Antipyrine: en interplanetarisk forvokset klump af møllesten, der ikke kan kyles noget sted hen, men kun være på en eller anden fæl forkant hos hele den godmodige bestand af for længst givne individer. Rundtomkring gnider alt mod alt. Alle disse uendelige litteraturlister: amazon.coms demokratiske genitalier, Marx the Profit. Fra skridtets forfængeligheder og helt ned i knæ på de højere læreanstalter. Monsieur Antipyrine kan simpelthen ikke komme af med sig selv, det er ikke nogen misforståelse. Og der bliver ingen metastasering til nye, hidtil usete højder af modifikation, heller ikke denne gang, ikke en globalobskøn skid. Monsieur Antipyrine tager afstand fra al etableret diskurs og tænker mere eller mindre, som en tumpe tegner, og fatter ikke, hvad der menes, når andre påstår i det hele taget at kunne ‘se noget’ i en tegning. Nogle vil sikkert spørge: Tager Monsieur Antipyrine afstand fra eller afstand fra al etableret diskurs? Altså, er det ikke diskursen i sig selv, den er gal med, så må det fandme være det etablerede — etableringen og, øh, snarere diskursen, den skrumper rent faktisk iøjnefaldende for dernæst at eskalere sit verdensomspændende grovæderi, sit mentale tyngdepunkts objektive diktatur. Ja, vi kender det jo alligevel ikke. Det private er sgu da ikke nulpunkt nok. Ærlig talt, det er snarere Monsieur Antipyrine, den er gal med: Antipyrine-i-kapitalismen. Og vi kan godt gentage det, bare med os selv som modsat fortegn. […]Følgende har bidraget til de rørende scener:Claus HandbergSimone WeilEva La CourJørgen MichaelsenAnne-Louise BosmansGayatri Chakravorty SpivakMathias SæderupCæcilie H. PoulsenErik SteinskogRoswitha ScholzRobert KurzJonas Georg ChristensenLaura JacksonAlexander TrocchiHenriette HeiseMorten Holm LarsenElizabeth BishopLaureNaja Vucina PedersenMikkel ThykierMikkel BoltHenrik HaveDen redaktionelle uorden varetages af: Mikkel Bolt Claus Handberg Mathias Kokholm Jørgen Michaelsen Mikkel Thykier