Death of a Discipline: Twentieth Anniversary Edition

by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231207220
• ISBN13: 9780231207225
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"