The Post-Colonial Critic - Interviews, Strategies and Dialogues

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The Post-Colonial Critic brings together twelve interviews with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, published and broadcast between 1984 and 1988 across multiple countries. The collection focuses on politico-theoretical issues central to Spivak’s work, including representation, self-representation, and representing others, as well as the politicization of deconstruction and the politics of multi-culturalism. It also addresses the role of post-colonial critics, speech-act theory, critical theory, pedagogical responsibility, and practical political strategy through sustained dialogue.

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Interviews, Strategies and Dialogues

Criticism, Feminism, and the Institution

The Post-modern Condition: The End of Politics?

Strategy, Identity, Writing

The Problem of Cultural Self-representation

Questions of Multi-culturalism

The Post-colonial Critic

Postmarked Calcutta, India

Practical Politics of the Open End

The Intervention Interview

Interview with Radical Philosophy

Negotiating the Structures of Violence

The New Historicism: Political Commitment and the Postmodern Critic

THE POST-COLONIALCRITIC Interviews,Strategies,Dialogues GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTYSPIVAK Edited by Sarah Harasym Published in 1990 by Routledge An imprint of Routledge,Chapman and Hall,Inc.29 West 35 StreetNew York,NY 10001 Published in Great Britain by Routledge 11 New Fetter LaneLondon EC4P 4EE Copyright1990 by Routledge,Chapman and Hall,Inc. Printed in the United States of America All rights reserved.No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced orutilized in any form or by any electronic,mechanical or other means,nowknown or hereafter invented,including photocopying and recording,or inany information storage or retrieval system,without permission in writingfrom the publishers. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Spivak,Gayatri Chakravorty. The post-colonial critic. 1.Social history—1970- 2.Spivak,Gayatri Chakravorty—Interviews.I.Harasym,Sarah,1957- II.Title. HN27.S661989 306'.09'0489-10470ISBN 0-415-90169-3SBN 0-415-90170-7(pbk.) British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Spivak,Gayatri Chakravorty, The post-colonial critic interviews,strategies anddialogues. 1.Politics 1.Title I.Harasym,Sarah,1957- 320 ISBN 0-415-90169-3 0-415-90170-7(pb) Contents Interviews,Strategies and Dialogues Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 1 Criticism,Feminism,and the Institution 1with Elizabeth Grosz 2 The Post-modern Condition:The End of Politics?17with Geoffrey Havthorn,Ron Aronson,and John Dunn 3 Strategy,Identity,Writing 35with John Hutnyk,Scott McQuire,andNikos Papastergiadis 4 The Problem of Cultural Self-representation 50with Walter Adamson 5 Questions of Multi-culturalism 59with Sneja Gunew 6 The Post-colonial Critic 67 with Rashmi Bhatnagar,Lola Chatterjee,andRajeshwari Sunder Rajan 7 Postmarked Calcutta,India 75with Angela Ingram 8 Practical Politics of the Open End 95with Sarah Harasym 9 The Intervention Interview 113with Terry Threadgold and Frances Bartkowski vi/Contents 10 Interview with Radical Philosophy 133with Peter Osborne and jonathan Ree 11 Negotiating the Structures of Violence 138 with Richard Dienst,Rosanne Kennedy,Joel Reed,HenrySchwarz and Rashmi Bhatnagar 12 The New Historicism:Political Commitment and thePostmodern Critic 152with Harold Veeser # Editor's Note Gayatri Spivak is one of the most influential cultural and literary theo-rists writing in the United States and lecturing at various academic institu-tions throughout the world today.Her interventions into Marxist,femi-nist,deconstructive,psychoanalytic and historiographic problematicsare well known and thoroughly recirculated.Yet,despite the centralityof Spivak's contributions to contemporary critical theory,there has beenlittle sustained critical discussion of her work. The Post-Colonial Critic is a collection of 12 interviews with GayatriSpivak published and/or broadcast in Australia,Canada,India,theUnited States and Britain between 1984 and 1988.The collection bringstogether discussions of some of the most compelling politico-theoreticalissues broached in Spivak's work and confronting political thinkers to-day.The questions deliberated include the problem of representation,self-representation and representing others;the politicization of decon-struction;post-colonialism and the politics of multi-culturalism;the situa-tions of post-colonial critics;speech-act and critical theory;pedagogicalresponsibility;and political strategies,as well as many other timelyissues. Yet,the interviews between Gayatri Spivak and her interlocutors donot merely record objective dialogues,nor do they simply delineatepolitico-theoretical positions.Indeed,the idea of a "neutral dialogue,"as Gayatri Spivak points out in her interview with Rashmi Bhatnagar,Lola Chatterjee,and Rajeshwari Sunder Rajan,"denies history,deniesstructure,denies the positioning of subjects."One must learn to readhow desire for neutrality and/or desire for the Other articulates itself.One must l

FAQs

What does The Post-Colonial Critic compile?

It compiles twelve interviews with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, along with the strategies and dialogues developed through her conversations with interlocutors.

Which main themes guide the interviews?

Key themes include representation and self-representation, the politicization of deconstruction, post-colonialism and multi-culturalism, and the situations and responsibilities of post-colonial critics.

How does the editor frame the purpose of the collection?

The editor explains that the interviews are reprinted in their original form to gather active critical commentary, with only a few notes added for clarification.

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