Can Gayatri Spivak’s ‘pretentiously opaque’ writing make a difference in the real world? Jennifer Wallace talks to an academic who has eaten mice and snakes in rural India.
Story-teller torn from his roots
Chinua Achebe, author of ‘the most cited book in African literature’, tells Jennifer Wallace of life in exile
Foucault for our time
Slavoj Zizek was once asked to run Slovenia’s MI5. Jennifer Wallace meets a radically chic philosopher with a taste for realpolitik.
The feminine mystique
Sacked by Jacques Lacan, shunned by French universities, denigrated by Alan Sokal, Luce Irigaray is still a star. Jennifer Wallace meets a ‘high priestess of ecriture feminine’
A Disappearing World
A multimedia presentation of the threat from mining to indigenous people in India.
Howls from a thicket of blood
Ariel Dorfman has spent his life fleeing tyrants. Here he tells Jennifer Wallace how the guilt of survival and his nomadic life have inspired his writing.
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