Conversations with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Tani E. Barlow, Suzana Milevska

Controversial, challenging and outspoken, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is best known as a deconstructionist and post-colonial theorist.  With an awe-inspiring track record in several areas, ranging from Feminism and Marxism to Literary Criticism and of course, Post-colonialism, she has built a reputation for being simultaneously at home and an outsider in many disciplines.

 

The interviews collected in this volume reflect the international character of her intellectual engagement as, in her criss-crossings of the globe, she engages with activists, scholars and writers located in different cultural contexts, from America to India to Macedonia and China.

Genres: Nonfiction, Post Colonial, Philosophy, India, Academia

184 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor at Columbia University. She is known for her English translation of Jacques Derrida's seminal work Of Grammatology, and her own philosophical writings on the postcolonial condition that introduced the term "subaltern" into the philosophical lexicon.

Reviews

[Kristin · Rating 4 out of 5]

got so much out of this.

one of my favorite things was the way Spivak describes how "anti-racism is routinely brought to crisis by anti imperialism." the point is that anti imperialist work can identify and attack larger systems of oppression and domination without relying on tokenizing leadership of people of color as white anti racism often does.

[Shuprova · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some very interesting ideas written in the most boring format imaginable