Gayatri Spivak’s ‘Readings’
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In Readings, Gayatri Spivak elaborates a utopian vision for the kind of deep and investigative reading that can develop a will for peaceful social justice in coming generations.
Full Title: Readings
Author: Gayatri Spivak, University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Place: Chicago, Illinois
Description: Throughout her distinguished career, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has sought to locate and confront shifting forms of social and cultural oppression. As her work shows, the best method for doing so is through extended practice in the ethics of reading.
In Readings, Spivak elaborates a utopian vision for the kind of deep and investigative reading that can develop a will for peaceful social justice in coming generations. Through her own analysis of specific works, Spivak demonstrates modes in which such a vision might be achieved.
Now in her fifth decade of teaching, Spivak passes on her lessons through anecdote, interpretation, warning, and instruction to students and teachers of literature. She writes:
“I urge students of English to understand that utopia does not happen, and yet to understand, also, their importance to the nation and the world.
“Indeed, I know how hard it is to sustain such a spirit in the midst of a hostile polity, but I urge the students to consider the challenge.”
For more see the book’s publication site at University of Chicago Press.
