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