Sangeeta Ray is Professor of English at the University of Maryland at College Park. She is the author of En-Gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives (2000) and the co-editor of A Companion to Postcolonial Studies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2000).

• Acknowledgments 1. WRITING AUTOBIOGRAPHY, WRITING SPIVAK: IN LIEU OF AN INTRODUCTION2. READING LITERATURE, TEACHING LITERATURE: WHITHER SOULMAKING?3. READING SINGLUARITY, READING DIFFERENCE AN ETHICS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE4. READING WOMAN, READING ESSENCE: WHITHER GENDERBibliographyIndex

"Overall, In Other Words represents an impressive effort by Ray to link, compress but also carefully reread a wide swath of Spivak's work. At times disorienting in its scope like the theorist's own work, Ray's book offers a sustained engagement with some of Spivak's most valuable insights and has me returning to her oeuvre with fresh eyes." (Postcolonial Text, 2011)