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Acknowledgments. <p>.</p> <p>1. WRITING AUTOBIOGRAPHY,WRITING SPIVAK:.</p> <p>IN LIEU OF AN INTRODUCTION.</p> <p>.</p> <p>2. READING LITERATURE,TEACHING LITERATURE:.</p> <p>WHITHER SOULMAKING?.</p> <p>.</p> <p>3. READING SINGLUARITY,READING DIFFERENCE.</p> <p>AN ETHICS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE.</p> <p>.</p> <p>4. READING WOMAN,READING ESSENCE:.</p> <p>WHITHER GENDER.</p> <p>Bibliography.</p> <p>Index</p>

"Overall, In Other Words represents an impressive effort by Ray to link, compress but also carefully reread a wide swath of Spivak's work. At times disorienting in its scope like the theorist's own work, Ray's book offers a sustained engagement with some of Spivak's most valuable insights and has me returning to her oeuvre with fresh eyes." (Postcolonial Text, 2011) <p> </p>

<b>Sangeeta Ray</b> is Professor of English at the University of Maryland at College Park. She is the author of <i>En-Gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives</i> (2000) and the co-editor of <i>A Companion to Postcolonial Studies</i> (Wiley-Blackwell, 2000).

Sangeeta Ray, a leading postcolonial feminist critic, provides a significant theoretical and critical engagement with the work of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Spivak was first catapulted to fame as the translator and interpreter of Jacques Derrida’s <i>Of Grammatology</i>, and subsequently became instrumental in creating and shaping the field of postcolonial studies. This book outlines and engages with the central tenets of Spivak’s thought through a nuanced examination of the main themes of her work, including ethics, literature, feminism, pedagogy, postcoloniality, violence, and war. Ray adheres to the spirit of a Spivakian methodology as she traces and retraces the full development of Spivak’s thought from her very early work to her most recent essays.

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