ABSTRACT

In this classic work, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the leading and most influential cultural theorists working today, analyzes the relationship between language, women and culture in both Western and non-Western contexts. Developing an original integration of powerful contemporary methodologies – deconstruction, Marxism and feminism – Spivak turns this new model on major debates in the study of literature and culture, thus ensuring that In Other Worlds has become a valuable tool for studying our own and other worlds of culture.

part |128 pages

Entering the Third World

chapter 12|35 pages

Subaltern Studies

Deconstructing Historiography

chapter 14|39 pages

A Literary Representation of the Subaltern

A Woman's Text from the Third World 1