New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. Hardcover. Good Condition. 21.8 x 15.1 x 1.3 cm. Dust jacket is fully intact. Pages are unmarked and uncreased. Top edge a bit spotted and greyed with dust. Otherwise, in good overall condition. Publisher's note: For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized ""rules"" of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. Today she remains one of the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences. In this new book 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 given new life -- one that is not appropriated and determined by the market. In the era of globalization, when mammoth projects of world. Size: 21.8 x 15.1 x 1.3 cm. 128 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; Comparative literature Methodology; Area studies Methodology; Culture Study and teaching; Politics and literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Cultural fusion; ISBN: 0231129440. ISBN/EAN: 9780231129442. Add. Inventory No: 240207RMS014121. . 9780231129442

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Bookseller: Barnaby (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 240207RMS014121
Title: Death of a Discipline
Author: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good Condition
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0231129440
ISBN 13: 9780231129442
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2003
Size: 21.8 x 15.1 x 1.3 cm
Keywords: BZDB428 Literature & Literary; Comparative literature Methodology; Area studies Methodology; Culture Study and teaching; Politics and literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Cultural fusion; ISBN: 0231129440 EAN: 9780231129442 Gayatri Chakravort

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