Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

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feminist critic human literary theorist philosopher postcolonial theorist translator university professor

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian literary theorist, feminist critic, and postcolonial scholar best known for her influential essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?” and her work on deconstruction and global feminism.

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Label	Occurrences
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak canonical	17
Chakravorty Spivak	1

Statements (53)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	feminist critic ⓘ human ⓘ literary theorist ⓘ philosopher ⓘ postcolonial theorist ⓘ translator ⓘ university professor ⓘ
academicAdvisor	Paul de Man ⓘ
awardReceived	Kyoto Prize ⓘ surface form: Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy Padma Bhushan ⓘ
birthDate	1942-02-24 ⓘ
birthPlace	Calcutta ⓘ India ⓘ West Bengal ⓘ
citizenship	India ⓘ
doctoralThesis	A Critique of Postcolonial Reason ⓘ surface form: A Critique of the Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present
educatedAt	Cornell University ⓘ Presidency College, Kolkata ⓘ surface form: Presidency College, Calcutta University of Calcutta ⓘ
employer	Columbia University ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Bengali people ⓘ
familyName	Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Chakravorty Spivak
fieldOfWork	Marxist theory ⓘ comparative literature ⓘ deconstruction ⓘ feminist theory ⓘ literary theory ⓘ postcolonial studies ⓘ
gender	female ⓘ
givenName	Gayatri ⓘ
knownFor	deconstructive reading ⓘ essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?" ⓘ global feminism ⓘ postcolonial theory ⓘ subaltern studies ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	Bengali ⓘ English ⓘ
movement	Marxism ⓘ deconstruction ⓘ feminism ⓘ postcolonialism ⓘ
name	Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak self-link ⓘ
nationality	Indian ⓘ
notableWork	A Critique of Postcolonial Reason ⓘ An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization ⓘ Can the Subaltern Speak? ⓘ Death of a Discipline ⓘ In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics ⓘ Outside in the Teaching Machine ⓘ
positionHeld	Director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University ⓘ University Professor at Columbia University ⓘ
translated	Of Grammatology ⓘ
translatedAuthor	Jacques Derrida ⓘ

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Subject: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Description of subject: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian literary theorist, feminist critic, and postcolonial scholar best known for her influential essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?” and her work on deconstruction and global feminism.

Referenced by (18)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Humboldt University of Berlin → hasNotableAlumni → Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ⓘ

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak → name → Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak self-link ⓘ

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak → familyName → Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Chakravorty Spivak

Edward Said → hasInfluenced → Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ⓘ

Visva-Bharati University → hasNotableAlumnus → Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ⓘ

Jacques Derrida → influenced → Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ⓘ

subaltern studies → hasKeyFigure → Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ⓘ

subject surface form: Subaltern Studies

Can the Subaltern Speak? → author → Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ⓘ

A Critique of Postcolonial Reason → author → Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ⓘ

In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics → author → Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ⓘ

Outside in the Teaching Machine → author → Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ⓘ

Death of a Discipline → author → Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ⓘ

An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization → author → Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ⓘ

essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?" → author → Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ⓘ

subject surface form: Can the Subaltern Speak?

Paul de Man → influenced → Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ⓘ

Of Grammatology → translator → Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ⓘ

subject surface form: Of Grammatology (English edition)

Farrar, Straus and Giroux → hasPublished → Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ⓘ

Western canon → hasKeyFigureInCritique → Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ⓘ