a book party & discussion with
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Monday, October 11 7:30 p.m.
The Brecht Forum 122 West 27th Street, 10th Floor (Between 6th and 7th Avenues) Sliding Scale Admission: $6-$10
In her recent book, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason, Spivak presents her first full treatment of postcolonial studies, a field that she helped define. The book addresses feminists, philosophers, critics, and interventionist intellectuals and ranges from Kant's analysis of the sublime to child labor in Bangladesh.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. Her other books include In OtherWorlds, The Postcolonial Critic, and Outside in the Teaching Machine.