{"title":"The Need for a Black Planetarity","authors":"Richard Purcell","doi":"10.5325/complitstudies.60.2.0244","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"abstract:\"The Need for a Black Planetarity\" connects Gayatri Spivak's revitalization of the project of comparative literature in Death of a Discipline to her analysis of virtual capitalism and urbanity across a range of her works, including \"Megacity\" and Harlem. This constellation of works, the author argues, illuminates untrodden thematic connections within Spivak's writing that reveal the importance of her figuration of \"planetarity\" in Death of a Discipline to our own contemporary struggles within and beyond the academy that draws us further away from the reading and teaching of the \"textual\" as a place of alterity.","PeriodicalId":55969,"journal":{"name":"COMPARATIVE LITERATURE STUDIES","volume":"60 1","pages":"244 - 252"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"COMPARATIVE LITERATURE STUDIES","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.60.2.0244","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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abstract:"The Need for a Black Planetarity" connects Gayatri Spivak's revitalization of the project of comparative literature in Death of a Discipline to her analysis of virtual capitalism and urbanity across a range of her works, including "Megacity" and Harlem. This constellation of works, the author argues, illuminates untrodden thematic connections within Spivak's writing that reveal the importance of her figuration of "planetarity" in Death of a Discipline to our own contemporary struggles within and beyond the academy that draws us further away from the reading and teaching of the "textual" as a place of alterity.
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Comparative Literature Studies publishes comparative articles in literature and culture, critical theory, and cultural and literary relations within and beyond the Western tradition. It brings you the work of eminent critics, scholars, theorists, and literary historians, whose essays range across the rich traditions of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. One of its regular issues every two years concerns East-West literary and cultural relations and is edited in conjunction with members of the College of International Relations at Nihon University. Each issue includes reviews of significant books by prominent comparatists.