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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Chakravorty Spivak ×1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	feminist critic → human → literary theorist → philosopher → postcolonial theorist → translator → university professor →
academicAdvisor	Paul de Man →
awardReceived	Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy → Padma Bhushan →
birthDate	1942-02-24 →
birthPlace	Calcutta → India → West Bengal →
citizenship	India →
doctoralThesis	A Critique of the Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present →
educatedAt	Cornell University → Presidency College, Calcutta → University of Calcutta →
employer	Columbia University →
ethnicGroup	Bengali people →
familyName	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 →
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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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ("Chakravorty Spivak") →	familyName
Edward Said →	hasInfluenced
Humboldt University of Berlin →	hasNotableAlumni
Visva-Bharati University →	hasNotableAlumnus
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak →	name