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Title:

Other Asias

Author:

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty.

ISBN:

9781405102063

9781405102070

Personal Author:

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty.

Publication Information:

Malden, MA : BLackwell Pub., 2008.

Physical Description:

365 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Contents:

Righting wrongs 2002 : accessing democracy among the aboriginals -- Responsibility 1992 : testing theory in the plains -- 1994 : will postcolonialism travel? -- 1996 : Foucault and Najibullah -- 1997 : testing theory in cities -- Moving Devi 1997 : the non-resident and the expatriate -- Our Asias 2001 : how to be a continentalist.

Geographic Term:

Asia -- Civilization.

Asia -- Politics and government.

Copies:

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Summary

In this major intervention into the 'Asian Century', Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak challenges the reader to re-think Asia, in its political and cultural complexity, in the global South and in the metropole.

Major work from one of the world's most distinguished literary and cultural theorists
Intervenes in the fraught issues generated by ideas of Asia
Featured essays include "Foucault and Najibullah," "Moving Devi," "Responsibility," and "Megacity"
Other chapters focus on, among other things, Human Rights, and the turbulent "present" of the Caucasus
Essential reading for anyone interested in postcolonialism, and devotees of Spivak's writing