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Gayatri Spivak

Summary

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian literary theorist and cultural critic at Columbia University, known for translating Derrida's Of Grammatology into English and for her foundational postcolonial essay 'Can the Subaltern Speak?'

Core Contribution

Introduced Derrida to English-speaking readers; 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' established postcolonial theory's critique of Western representations of the Third World.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • postcolonial theory
  • subaltern
  • Derrida
  • feminist theory

Notable Works & Achievements

Can the Subaltern Speak?

A Critique of Postcolonial Reason

In Other Worlds

Historical Influences

Derrida Gramsci Foucault Marxism

Intellectual Lineage

Deconstructionism postcolonial studies feminist theory

Contemporaries & Peers

Edward Said Homi Bhabha

Minds Influenced

Postcolonial studies subaltern studies feminist theory

Intellectual Posterity

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