Postcolonial Reason and Its Critique Deliberations on Gayatri Spivak's Thoughts

by Bilimoria, Purushottama; Al-Kassim, Dina

• ISBN13: 9780198075561
• ISBN10: 0198075561
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-06-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Gayatri Spivak is a leading theoretician in social science research. Her theories and methods have not only been used in the fields of cultural studies and philosophy of language, but have also been widely applied in the fields of anthropology and political studies. This volume studies and analyses the range of the impact of her approach to postcolonial studies. The contributors analyse, explore and expand the domains of her ideas and formulations and discuss the influence of Kant and Matilalin her writings. The essays deal with Spivak's arguments on feminist studies, as well as the techniques of reading texts brought forth by her. They also debate the implications of her theories in cultural studies, ethnography, and anthropology, the volume is detailed guide to contemporary thought. Italso includes Gayatri Spivak's response to the issues and questions raised. The introduction highlights the larger convergences that Spivak brings together.This book will interest of scholars and students of philosophy, history, subaltern/postcolonial/ cultural studies, gender studies, and political science.

Author Biography

Purushottama Bilimoria is Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne University.
Dina Al-Kassim is Affiliate Faculty, Women's Studies, University of California.

Table of Contents

Preface by Purushottama Bilimoria
Introduction by Dina Al-Kassim
1. Postcolonial Critique of Reason: Spivak Between Kant and Matilal by Purushottama Bilimoria
2. The Face of Foreclosure by Dina Al-Kassim
3. History and the Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Limits, Secret, Value by Ritu Birla
4. 'By a Certain Subreption': Gayatri Spivak and the 'Lever' of the Aesthetic by Forest Pyle
5. The Push and Pull of Rights and Responsibilities by Thomas Keenan
6. . Representation: Reading Otherwise by Mark Sanders
7. The Art of Witnessing and the Community of Ought To Be by Drucilla Cornell
8. Three-Way Misreading by Mieke Bal
9. The Impossibility of Reading Otherwise: The Native Informant and the Quasi-transcendental in Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's A Critique of Postcolonial Reason by Steven Norton;
10. Rethinking Rights: Spivak, Kant, and the Vision of Cultures 'to Come' by Maria Koundoura
11. Kant's 'Raw Man' and the Miming of Primitivism: Spivak's Critique of Postcolonial Reason by Chetan Bhatt
12. Listening to Child Detainees in Australian Immigration Detention Centers by Adrian Parr
13. Response: Panel of Papers of Crtitique of Postcolonial Reason by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Notes on Contributors