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GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY

SPIVAK

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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most inﬂuential ﬁgures in

contemporary critical theory. However, her hugely important theoret-

ical work is often hard to approach for the ﬁrst time. This introduction

offers a stepping stone to such crucial primary texts as In Other Worlds

and A Critique of Postcolonial Reason .

Spivak is perhaps best known for her overtly political use of contem-

porary cultural and critical theories to challenge the legacy of

colonialism on the way we read and think about literature and culture.

Always cutting-edge, always provocative, Spivak champions the voices

and texts of those marginalised by western culture and takes on many

of the dominant ideas of the contemporary era. This volume examines

her work through the issues of style, deconstruction, the subaltern,

‘Third World’ women and western feminism, materialism and value,

postcolonialism and the literary text.

Anyone interested in contemporary cultural theory should read

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Any reader of Spivak should in turn look

to this introduction.

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Stephen Morton is Lecturer in English at Tampere University,

Finland and has been a research fellow at the Whitney Museum of

American Art Independent Study Program, New York City. He has

published work on critical and cultural theory, twentieth-century litera-

ture and visual culture.

ROUTLEDGE CRITICAL THINKERS

essential guides for literary studies

Series Editor: Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway, University

of London

Routledge Critical Thinkers is a series of accessible introductions to key

ﬁgures in contemporary critical thought.

With a unique focus on historical and intellectual contexts, each volume

examines a key theorist’s:

• signiﬁcance

• motivation

• key ideas and their sources

• impact on other thinkers

Concluding with extensively annotated guides to further reading,

Routledge Critical Thinkers are the literature student’s passport to today’s

most exciting critical thought.

Already available:

Jean Baudrillard by Richard J. Lane

Maurice Blanchot by Ullrich Haase and William Large

Judith Butler by Sara Salih

Gilles Deleuze by Claire Colebrook

Sigmund Freud by Pamela Thurschwell

Martin Heidegger by Timothy Clark

Fredric Jameson by Adam Roberts

Paul de Man by Martin McQuillan

Edward Said by Bill Ashcroft and Pal Ahluwalia

For further details on this series, see www.literature.routledge.com/rct

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Stephen Morton

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First published 2003

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004.

reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic,

mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented,

including photocopying and recording, or in any information

storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from

the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Morton, Stephen, 1972–

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak / Stephen Morton.

p. cm. – (Routledge critical thinkers)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty–Contributions in cultural studies. 2. Spivak, Gayatri

Chakravorty–Contributions in feminist theory. 3. Spivak, Gayatri

Chakravorty–Contributions in postcolonialism. 4. Spivak, Gayatri

Chakravorty–Criticism and interpretation. I. Title. II. Series.

HV479.S65 M67 2002

306–dc21

2002068186

ISBN 0-203-10851-5 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-16312-5 (Adobe eReader Format)

ISBN 0–415–22934–0 (hbk)

ISBN 0–415–22935–9 (pbk)

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THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO

DAVID AND PATRICIA MORTON

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