Conversations with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Controversial, challenging and outspoken, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most visible and controversial cultural critics of our time. The interviews collected here reflect the international character of her intellectual engagement with the ideas and politics which are shaping our world.

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

184 pages, Paperback

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