A Critique of Postcolonial Reason

Name: A Critique of Postcolonial Reason
Author: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Critique of postcolonial theory's relationship to Western philosophy and representation

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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Indian literary theorist and translator whose essay Can the Subaltern Speak? is the most discussed text in postcolonial studies, asking whether those marginalized by colonialism can speak in their own voice within colonial discourse. Her translation of Derrida's Of Grammatology introduced deconstruction to the English-speaking world.

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