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An aesthetic education in the era of globalization / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.Description: xvi, 607 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780674051836
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 111.85 22
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction -- The burden of English -- Who claims alterity? -- How to read a "culturally different" book -- The double bind starts to kick in -- Culture: situating feminism -- Teaching for the times -- Acting bits/identity talk -- Supplementing Marxism -- What's left of theory? -- Echo -- Translation as culture -- Translating into English -- Nationalism and the imagination -- Resident alien -- Ethics and politics in Tagore, Coetzee, and certain scenes of teaching -- Imperative to re-imagine the planet -- Reading with Stuart Hall in "pure" literary terms -- Terror: a speech after 9/11 -- Harlem -- Scattered speculations on the subaltern and the popular -- World systems and the creole -- The stakes of world literature -- Rethinking comparativism -- Sign and trace -- Tracing the skin of day.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Books Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Reference Stacks Reference 111.85 S7616a 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 01 Not For Loan 022748
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Introduction -- The burden of English -- Who claims alterity? -- How to read a "culturally different" book -- The double bind starts to kick in -- Culture: situating feminism -- Teaching for the times -- Acting bits/identity talk -- Supplementing Marxism -- What's left of theory? -- Echo -- Translation as culture -- Translating into English -- Nationalism and the imagination -- Resident alien -- Ethics and politics in Tagore, Coetzee, and certain scenes of teaching -- Imperative to re-imagine the planet -- Reading with Stuart Hall in "pure" literary terms -- Terror: a speech after 9/11 -- Harlem -- Scattered speculations on the subaltern and the popular -- World systems and the creole -- The stakes of world literature -- Rethinking comparativism -- Sign and trace -- Tracing the skin of day.

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