Other Asias

ISBN: 1405102063

Author: Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty

Condition: New

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 worlds most distinguished literary and cultural theoristsIntervenes in the fraught issues generated by ideas of AsiaFeatured essays include Foucault and Najibullah, Moving Devi, Responsibility, and MegacityOther chapters focus on, among other things, Human Rights, and the turbulent "present" of the CaucasusEssential reading for anyone interested in postcolonialism, and devotees of Spivaks writing