In this classic work, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the leading and most in
fluential cultural theorists working today, analyzes the relationship between la
nguage, women and culture in both Western and non-Western contexts. Developing a
n original integration of powerful contemporary methodologies - deconstruction,
Marxism and feminism - Spivak turns this new model on major debates in the study
of literature and culture, thus ensuring that In Other Worlds has become a valu
able tool for studying our own and other worlds of culture.
