The Spivak Reader offers a careful selection of this major critic's work, making it accessible to as wide an audience as possible. Many of the pieces have not previously been published in Spivak's earlier books.

Contents:
Introduction: Reading Spivak Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean 1. Bonding In Difference, interview with Alfred Arteaga (1993/4) 2. Explanation and Culture: Marginalia (1979) 3. Feminism and Critical Theory (1985) 4. Revolutions That As Yet Have No Model: Derrida's Limited Inc. (1980) 5. Scattered Speculations on the Question of Value (1985) 6. More on Power/Knowledge (1992) 7. Echo (1993) 8. Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography (1985) 9. How to Teach a "Culturally Different" Book (1991) 10. Translator's Preface and Afterword to Mahasweta Devi, "Imaginary Maps" (1994) 11. Subaltern Talk, interview with editors (1993/4) 12. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: A Checklist of Publications Index

Weaving history, myth and current political realities, these three stories by noted bengali writer Magasweta Devi eplore troubling motifs in contemporary Indian life through the figures and narratives of the indigenous tribes of India. Devi's texts are examined and amplified through an interview and critical essays by Gaytri Spivak. Her essays explode the scope and impact of these stories, connecting the necessary "power lines" not only between local and international structures of power (patriarchy, nationalsims, late capitalism), but tracing them to the very door of the university.