Postcolonialism and spectrality
Political deferral and ethical singularity in the writing of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3473816 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Morton (0000-0001-7122-0201, University of Leeds, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 605-620 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Interventions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-801X • E-ISSN: 1469-929X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13698019900510851 |
| OpenAlex | W1585710262 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 27 |
As the writing of Aijaz Ahmad and Arif Dirlik illustrates, the direction of postcolonial criticism has moved towards an interrogation of its location within contemporary geopolitical power relationships. This self-critical emphasis has worked to foreground the ideological determinants of post-colonial theory, but it can also obscure the political efficacy of western critical frameworks. By emphasizing postcolonial theory's complicity with global capitalism, such approaches are in danger of reducing postcolonial theory to an effect of transnational capitalism, thereby leaving us with no ground from which to criticize contemporary colonialism. In response to these concerns, this article examines Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's powerful rearticulation of deconstruction, Marxism and feminism, and its critical effectivity in the contemporary context of transnational capitalism. While Spivak's project has gained currency in a range of critical discussions which extend beyond her own geopolitical location — indicating her implication in transnational theoretical production — this is not to suggest that she is simply a beneficiary of a totalizing (though fragmentary) global capitalism. Rather, by focusing on Spivak's sustained dialogue with Marx and Derrida and her 'catachrestic' analysis of her location within the metropolitan academy, I want to suggest that Spivak's deconstructive critique of nationalist and Marxist metanarratives offers a 'situated knowledge' that is adequate to describe the multivalent effects of a transnational finance capital
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| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2004 - 2004 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |