An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization

Finding the neat polarities of tradition and modernity, colonial and postcolonial, no longer sufficient, this title argues that aesthetic education is the last available instrument for implementing global justice and democracy.

"The tower of Babel is our refuge." In essays on theory, translation, Marxism, gender, and world literature, and on writers such as Assia Djebar, J. M. Coetzee, and Rabindranath Tagore, Spivak argues for the social urgency of the humanities and renews the case for literary studies, imprisoned in the corporate university. "Perhaps," she writes, "the literary can still do something."