In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics

Plot

"In her long-awaited book on cultural theory, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak analyzes the relationship between language, women, and culture in both Western and non-Western contexts. Spivak develops an original integration of powerful contemporary methodologies - deconstruction, Marxism, and feminism - turning this new model on major debates in the study of literature and culture. In Other Worlds considers questions of theory across a broad spectrum (what, for example, does "pluralism" mean?) while also engaging in ongoing debates with the leading figures of contemporary criticism: political philosophers such as Habermas and Althusser, psychoanalysts such as Julia Kristeva, legal theorists such as Ronald Dworkin, literary and social critics including Edward Said, Wayne Booth, Donald Davie, Hélène Cixous, and Jean-Joseph Goux. Spivak's work also explores the literary text: Dante, Yeats, Wordsworth and Coleridge, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Drabble and the Indian writer Mahasweta Devi"--Back cover.