Death of a Discipline

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