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This collection of essays from renowned postcolonial scholar and literary critic Gayatri Chackravorty Spivak, examines the author's evolving views on the place of the aesthetic in the development of global culture and globalized cultures. The essays span a period of almost a quarter century and trace the development of Spivak's postcolonial theories into a new discussion of the role of world language and culture in the subjugation of national, ethnic, gender, and class identities. The text covers such topics as reading the "culturally different" text, culture and feminism, translation as culture, terror and speech after 9/11, and rethinking comparativism. Spivak is a professor of comparative literature at Columbia University. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
