{"product_id":"death-of-a-discipline-twentieth-anniversary-edition-9780231207232","title":"Death of a Discipline: Twentieth Anniversary Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eGayatri 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpivak examines how comparative literature and world literature in translation have fared in the era of globalization and considers how to protect the multiplicity of languages and literatures at the university. She demonstrates why critics interested in social justice should pay close attention to literary form and offers insightful interpretations of classics such as Joseph Conrad's \u003ci\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e and Virginia Woolf's \u003ci\u003eA Room of One's Own\u003c\/i\u003e. Through readings of texts not only in English, French, and German but also in Arabic and Bengali, Spivak practices what she preaches. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis anniversary edition features a new preface in which Spivak reflects on the fortunes of comparative literature in the intervening years and its tasks today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor in the Humanities and a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. Her many books include \u003ci\u003eA Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present\u003c\/i\u003e (1999) and \u003ci\u003eAn Aesthetic Education in the Age of Globalization\u003c\/i\u003e (2012). She is also the translator of Jacques Derrida's \u003ci\u003eOf Grammatology\u003c\/i\u003e and several works by Mahasweta Devi.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50392304451858,"sku":"9780231207232","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f7ee9961-2cc1-446b-9d65-0733da9b5441.jpg?v=1728973834","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/death-of-a-discipline-twentieth-anniversary-edition-9780231207232","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}