Portrait of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

b. 1942

Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic

  • British Raj · Dominion of India · India
  • Indian Writing in English
  • Postcolonial Theory
  • Deconstruction
  • Feminist Criticism
  • Literary Theory
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian literary theorist and feminist critic. She is a professor at Columbia University and a founding member of Columbia's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Portrait by Robert Crc (FAL) via Wikimedia Commons.

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b. 1942
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