Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization

Essays on culture, education, and globalization's impact on human development

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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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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