Gayatri Spivak: Ethics, Subalternity and the Critique of Postcolonial ReasonISBN: 978-0-7456-3285-8
Paperback
216 pages
January 2007, Polity
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Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg, Harvard
University
"Gayatri Spivak’s refusal to settle for the quick fix, the
empty piety, the mere abstract calculus, or the language of
expediency has never appeared more salutary than it does today. As
violence counters violence in the name of moral righteousness, this
lucid book, like Spivak’s own critique of postcolonial
studies, is a timely reminder of the complicity between imagined
liberal benevolence and the ruthless pursuit of global hegemony at
any cost. If one slogan emerges from Stephen Morton’s
analysis it is the ever more pressing need to 'learn to learn from
the subaltern'. This is a task requiring patience and the learning
of subaltern languages as 'active cultural media', not as mere
instruments. Never has comparative literary and cultural studies
beckoned so urgently."
Donna Landry, University of Kent at Canterbury