"Planetarity" as the Armature for Comparing Alice Walker and Bama Faustina
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Vinod Valiathakidi Balakrishnan
The paper discusses two writers who belong to distinct cultural spheres: Alice Walker (African American) and Bama Faustina (Dalit). The former is prodigious and versatile. The latter is emerging as a significant voice of protest. The idea of "planetarity" as expounded by Gayatri Spivak in "The Death of a Discipline" is deployed as a theoretical armature that allows for a comparison of two remarkable representatives of their respective cultures who have been articulating and animating the hideous aspects of racism and of caste discrimination. The comparison moreover is an intervention in the continuing conversation in Comparative Literature as to how, in the context of Globalization, borders need to be crossed and the values of the humanities revisited for the survival of the discipline.
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- Article
- Zelig in the Jungle: Neozapatismo and the Construction of the International Indigenous Subject
- "Planetarity" as the Armature for Comparing Alice Walker and Bama Faustina
- Interpreting the Transforming World: Perspectives from Peace Research
- Commentary
- The State under Globalization : Weakened State or Reinforced Economic Planner?
- Social Bonding, Globalization, and Humanity
- Reportage
- Al-Qaida versus the Arab Awakening: The Muslim World's Past and Future
- Book Review
- Review of The Unfinished Global Revolution
- Review of Worse Than a Monolith: Alliance Politics and Problems of Coercive Diplomacy in Asia
