As part of the MA Postcolonial Studies program taught by the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths we are very happy to announce a talk by Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Great Hall, Goldsmiths New Cross on Thursday 8th of November 2007, from 5pm.
Topic :
"Revisiting Postcolonialism"
ALL WELCOME
there will also now be a book launch at 2pm on friday the 9th of November. More details as they arrive.
co sponsors - Centre for Cultural Studies, Graduate School, Media and Communications, Politics Department.
3 comments:
Will a translator be available, that is, to translate Spivak's peculiar dialect of postcolonial gobbledygook into everyday English? Ah, but plain prose tells lies, of course. Truth is only accessible to the intellectually obscure. Nah, I Love 'er, really!
http://www.bayyinat.org.uk/spivak.htm
There is plenty of room even for those who are troubled by the admittedly demanding, but I think nevertheless always engaging, style(s), so do not be put off because there is much to read in advance:
Suggestions from Gayatri pertinent to this visit include:
Chronicle of Higher Education, "The Education of Gayatri Spivak" http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i03/03b01601.htm
Gramsci readings: "Study of Philosophy," "On Education," "The Intellectuals," "Prison Notebooks"
Noah Feldman, "Democratosis" New York Times Magazine, October 7, 2007.
"Righting Wrongs," My piece in Nicholas Owen's Human Rights, Human Wrongs , Oxford UP
Chico Whitaker's talk from Actuel Marx, reprinted in L'Humanité (will have to be translated into English)
the planet chapter from Spivak Death of a Discipline
the essay on Coetzee from diacritics
Abderrahmane Sissako's Bamako (film)
The link you added is helpful, but also strange to have it as a kind of kinship diagram or flow chart. Form and function? Anthropologique? Input-output model? There might be much to discuss here on what such diagramatic figuring does to a complex thinker.
See you Nov 8, John
The day after the major talk by Gayatri Spivak (thursday 8th Nov 5pm) there will be a booklaunch of new book(s) by her - this will be in the Cinema at Goldsmiths from 2pm - she will sign copies if you wish.
The launched books we hope to have are:
Two from Seagull Press - 'Conversations with Gayatri Spivak'
and
co-authored with Judith Butler: 'Who Sings the Nation State?'
PLUS - a key new book from Blackwells
> In this major intervention into the "Asian Century," Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak challenges the reader to re-think Asia, in its political and cultural complexity, in the global South and in the metropole.
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> Among the chapters in this volume are:
> ? "Foucault and Najibullah," in which she looks at Afghanistan in its own historical and gendered narrative
> ? "Moving Devi," in which she addresses the authority of autobiography and writes as a diasporic
> ? "Responsibility," in which she examines the limits of "theory" upon the floodplains of Bangladesh
> ? "Megacity," where she reads cyberliteracy in Bangalore.
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> Other chapters focus on, among other things, Human Rights, and the turbulent "present" of the Caucasus.
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> "Other Asias is an eloquent plea for a pedagogy of continental scope that does not evade or erode the singular, 'textured' life, thought and work of geographical regions and political minorities. The exemplary courage and extraordinary imagination that have distinguished Spivak's work are now engaged in rich reflections on the political art of humanistic education."
> Homi K. Bhabha, Harvard University
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> December 2007
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> Hardback / ISBN13: 9781405102063 / 376 pages / £50.00
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> Paperback / ISBN13: 9781405102070 / 376 pages / £12.99
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