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How Do We Write, Now?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Gayatri Chakravorty Spiyak
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How do we write, now? since i am writing for the pages of the publications of the modern language association of america, I presume the “we” here describes teachers of literature in the United States. I, outside in that “we,” think that most of us write, for a variety of reasons, with the presumed inclusion of “the global South” in our audience; although I also have the feeling that a lot of us, folks that I do not really know, ignore this requirement altogether. Geraldine Heng's important work has made us aware of this absence in the study of the literature of the Middle Ages. From the early modern era on, however, progressive writing does have this cultural requirement.

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Theories and Methodologies
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PMLA , Volume 133 , Issue 1 , January 2018 , pp. 166 - 170
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Copyright © 2017 The Modern Language Association of America

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