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Free Download Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, "Death of a Discipline: Twentieth Anniversary Edition "
English | ISBN: 0231207239 | 2023 | 160 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is among the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences of the past half-century. In this book, originally published in 2003, she declares the death of comparative literature as we know it and sounds an urgent call for a "new comparative literature," in which the discipline is reborn―one that is not appropriated and determined by the market.
Spivak examines how comparative literature and world literature in translation have fared in the era of globalization and considers how to protect the multiplicity of languages and literatures at the university. She demonstrates why critics interested in social justice should pay close attention to literary form and offers insightful interpretations of classics such as Joseph Conrad's
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