Other Asias

In this major intervention into the fraught issues generated by ideas of Asia, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak collects her key essays, all of which represent the theorist at her most troubling and powerful in challenging post-structuralist and postcolonial assumptions.

Among the works featured in this volume are: * 'Foucault and Najibullah', in which through her bold reading of 'ab-use' of the Enlightenment as 'the public use of reason', she exposes Foucault's unlocated 'critique of governmentality and addresses what is today suddenly topical: the playing out of Kipling's 'Great Game', from the perspective of the subaltern * A hitherto unpublished version of 'Moving Devi', in which she addresses the authority of autobiography * 'Responsibility', in which she explores the Other and the Ethical * 'Our Asias', in which she examines the concept of 'Asia', stressing the need to speak of the continent as plural rather than singular.