Spivak and Brontë

Today we present this recently published book about the literary critic Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.

Gayatri Spivak by Stephen Morton, University of Southampton
Blackwell Publishers

Description:

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's seminal contribution to late-twentieth and early twentieth century thought defies disciplinary boundaries. From her early translations of Derrida to her subsequent engagement with Marxism, feminism and postcolonial studies, and her recent work on human rights, the war on terror and globalization, she has proved to be one of the most vital of contemporary thinkers. In this book, Stephen Morton offers an advanced critique of Spivak's work. He demonstrates her various engagements with political thinkers from Kant to de Man, feminists from Cixous to Helie-Lucas and literary texts by Charlotte Brontë, J.M. Coetzee, Mahasweta Devi and Jean Rhys. Spivak's thought is also situated in relation to subaltern studies. Throughout the book, Morton interrogates the materialist basis of Spivak's thought and demonstrates the ethical and political commitment which lies at the heart of her work.

If you want to know more about the way in wich Spivak read Charlotte Brontë we encourage you to read her seminal work: "Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism", a compared analysis of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in the contexts of of marxism, feminism, and deconstruction.

Categories: Books, Scholar, Charlotte_Brontë