Other Asias. By Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

摘要

This is a great book, yet it is also a work book. It is a book that takes work to read. And this is due in part to the fact that it is a book that works with its words to show its own work, on the move, on the mind, on the sleight of mind, here and there, North and South, 'out of joint with the times' (p. 173). As such, it might be said to be a sort of Post card work too: 'ready to work' (p. 235) from one space to the next with bits of the real found in the world at large, but not as a post man of truth from the jet set, nor Freud for real, nor fort and da for Dad (or a big Dad on the Left Bank), just lots of home work. From house work with its gods, to map work on its home ground, it is Other Asias through which much of this work takes (and in which it thus finds) place. Not the East of the West, though, here it is much more than this site and cite from the bard song of Troy's time (p. 210) all the way on to A Pac M prime.