"Teleiopoiesis, Telepoesis," and the Practice of Comparative Literature.

Death of a Discipline (Book); Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, 1942-; Derrida, Jacques, 1930-2004; Comparative literature; Textual criticism; Books

This article analyzes the text of the book "Death of a Discipline," by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Spivak begins the second chapter of the book with a clear statement of both her text's subject and its mode of inquiry about comparative literature. The practice of comparative literature consists of two seemingly opposed and contradictory processes. One of the ways in which Spivak defines the practice of comparative literature is through the eyes of another or through the language or figure of another and through the use of Jacques Derrida's term teleiopoiesis.