In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics

xix, 309 pp. "Spivak debates general questions of theory with political philosophers such as Habermas and Althusser, psychoanalysts such as Kristeva, and with legal theorists such as Dworkin." CONTENTS: Foreword by Colin MacCabe; Author's Note; One: Literature: The Letter as Cutting Edge - Finding Feminist Readings: Dante--Yeats - Unmaking and Making in To the Lighthouse - Sex and History in The Prelude (1805): Books Nine to Thirteen - Feminism and Critical Theory; Two: Into the World: Reading the World: Literary Studies in the Eighties - Explanation and Culture: Marginalia - The Politics of Interpretations - French Feminism in an International Frame - Scattered Speculations on the Queen of Value; Three: Entering the Third World: "Draupadi" by Mahasweta Devi - Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography - "Breast-Giver" by Mahasweta Devi - A Literary Representation of the Subaltern: A Woman's Text from the Third World; Notes.