Philosopher

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

A founder of postcolonial theory — Columbia University

Columbia University · India / United States · d. 24 February 1942

The Indian-born thinker whose question "Can the subaltern speak?" set the direction of postcolonial theory. She translated Derrida's Of Grammatology into English.

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Life: b. 24 February 1942 — living
Country: India / United States
Period: Contemporary
School: Postcolonialism, Deconstruction
Affiliation: Columbia University
Areas: Postcolonial theory, Feminist theory, Comparative literature, Deconstruction
Major works: "Can the Subaltern Speak?" (1988)
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason (1999)
Death of a Discipline (2003)
An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization (2012)
Key concepts: The subaltern, Strategic essentialism, Epistemic violence, Planetarity
Sources: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak — Wikipedia

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