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Position without Identity: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Position without Identity: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak positions 15:2 Fall 2007 This conversation took place on the campus of the University of California, Irvine. It was the fourth Sunday of May, 2004, but the weather was not as warm or sunny as one might expect. To get away from noise and find a quiet and sheltered space for our conversation, which would be taped, we tried the Humanities Instructional Building. Professor Spivak had the key to an office that she borrowed, but did not have the key to the front door that locks the main office area. The only public and sheltered space available then was the restroom. We brought in two light plastic chairs from outside and made use of this space. It was fortunate for us that nobody else came in to use the restroom during our hour-long conversation. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Hairong has given me the proposal of the special issue and a number of questions related to it and I am fascinated by the proposal and I suggested that I start talking about the very first question in the proposal and then we’ll go from there, and that question is: why do we need to think about ”Asia” as a problematic http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png positions asia critique Duke University Press

Position without Identity: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

positions asia critique , Volume 15 (2) – Sep 1, 2007

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Duke University Press
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Copyright 2007 by Duke University Press
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1067-9847
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1527-8271
DOI
10.1215/10679847-2006-036
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positions 15:2 Fall 2007 This conversation took place on the campus of the University of California, Irvine. It was the fourth Sunday of May, 2004, but the weather was not as warm or sunny as one might expect. To get away from noise and find a quiet and sheltered space for our conversation, which would be taped, we tried the Humanities Instructional Building. Professor Spivak had the key to an office that she borrowed, but did not have the key to the front door that locks the main office area. The only public and sheltered space available then was the restroom. We brought in two light plastic chairs from outside and made use of this space. It was fortunate for us that nobody else came in to use the restroom during our hour-long conversation. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Hairong has given me the proposal of the special issue and a number of questions related to it and I am fascinated by the proposal and I suggested that I start talking about the very first question in the proposal and then we’ll go from there, and that question is: why do we need to think about ”Asia” as a problematic

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Published: Sep 1, 2007

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