Death of a discipline (Record no. 20586)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 8170462592
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 809
Item number GAY/D
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Death of a discipline
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication Calcutta
Name of publisher Seagull
Year of publication 2004
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages xii,128p.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Includes index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc 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.<br/><br/>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.
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Topical Term Literature-Collections
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Kannur University Central Library Stack 23/05/2014 809 GAY/D 21029 BK

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