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Marianne de Jong

Bio: Marianne de Jong is an academic researcher from University of South Africa. The author has contributed to research in topics: Marxist philosophy. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 1 citations.

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TL;DR: In other worlds. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak as discussed by the authors, 1987. Essays in cultural politics. London and New York: Methuen and New Orleans:
Abstract: In other Worlds. Essays in cultural Politics. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: 1987. London and New York: Methuen

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Dissertation
01 Jan 1998
TL;DR: In this article, Chakravorty Spivak argues for the usefulness of deconstructive and post-modern thought in a post-colonial context generally, and in South Africa in particular.
Abstract: This dissertation analyses a number of key themes in the work of postcolonial theorist and literary critic Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and uses her ideas to argue for the usefulness of both deconstructive and postmodern thought in a postcolonial context generally, and in South Africa in particular. The early part of the thesis presents a brief overview of Spivak's work (Chapter 1) and discusses its relationship with Derridean deconstruction and what I have called "progressive postmodern thought". Chapter 2 explores in detail Spivak's use of theoretical concepts adapted from, or closely related to, deconstruction. Perhaps the most important of these is catachresis the idea that all naming is in a sense false, and the words we use to conceptualise the world must be seen as "inadequate, yet necessary". The thesis looks at how Spivak foregrounds the methodological consequences of this insight in her own practice of constantly revisiting and rethinking her own conclusions, and also at the political consequences of recognising specific terms like "nation", "identity" or "woman" as catachrestic. Closely related to this area of Spivak's work are her idea of "strategic essentialism" and her adaptation of Derrida's concept of the pharrnakon -that which is simultaneously poison and medicine. Chapter 3 relates Spivak's work to three key areas of postmodern thought: alterity, and the ethics of the relationship between self and other; Lyotard's notions of the differand and the "unpresentable"; and aporia, or the ethical and political consequences of undecidability. I argue here that all of these emphases are potentially very useful in postcolonial studies, particularly in relation to the predicament

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