Among the foremost feminist critics to have emerged to international eminence over the last fifteen years, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has relentlessly challenged the high ground of established theoretical discourse in literary and cultural studies. Although her rigorous reading of various authors ha[...]

Mänskliga rättigheter har kommit att spela en allt viktigare roll i samtidens politiska diskussioner; ibland till och med som ersättning för politiken. Ändå är frågan om vad mänskliga rättigheter är, vems rättigheter vi talar om och vem det är som säkerställer dem, ingalunda självkla[...]

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak offers an overtly political challenge to the way we think about literature and culture. As she highlights the many legacies of colonialism, she re-defines the ethical horizons of contemporary critical thought. This volume focuses on her key theoretical concepts, intellectu[...]

Gayatri Spivak, one of our best known cultural and literary theorists, addresses a vast range of political questions with both pen and voice. The Post-Colonial Critic brings together a selection of interviews and discussions in which she has taken part over the past five years; together they artic[...]

During the past twenty years, the world's most renowned critical theorist--the scholar who defined the field of postcolonial studies--has experienced a radical reorientation in her thinking. Finding the neat polarities of tradition and modernity, colonial and postcolonial, no longer sufficient for i[...]

Jacques Derrida's revolutionary theories about deconstruction, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and structuralism, first voiced in the 1960s, forever changed the face of European and American criticism. The ideas in De la grammatologie sparked lively debates in intellectual circles that included stud[...]

Throughout her distinguished career, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has sought to locate and confront shifting forms of social and cultural oppression. As her work shows, the best method for doing so is through extended practice in the ethics of reading. In Readings, Spivak elaborates a utopian vision f[...]

This spirited and engaging conversation between two of America's most influential cultural critics and international theorists of the last decade explores what both Enlightenment and contemporary philosophers have to say about the idea of the nation-state, who exercises power in today's world, wheth[...]

Förhållandet mellan feminismen och den socialistiska vänstern har ibland beskrivits som ett ?olyckligt äktenskap?: den återkommande frågan har varit om det är klass eller kön som ska ges politiskt företräde. I Fronesis nr 25?26 samsas historiska tillbakablickar med analyser av dagens spän[...]