Gayatri Spivak
| Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak | |
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24 February 1942 Calcutta, British Raj |
| Alma mater |
University of Calcutta Cornell University |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | postcolonialism, deconstruction |
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Main interests
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Literary criticism, feminism, Marxism, postcolonialism |
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Notable ideas
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Strategic essentialism, the Subaltern, the Other |
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Influences
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Bengali: গায়ত্রী চক্রবর্তী স্পিভাক, born 24 February 1942) is an Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic. She is University Professor at Columbia University, where she is a founding member of Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.
Considered "one of the most influential postcolonial intellectuals", Spivak is best known for her essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?," and for her translation of and introduction to Jacques Derrida's De la grammatologie. In 2012, Spivak was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for being "a critical theorist and educator speaking for the humanities against intellectual colonialism in relation to the globalized world." In 2013, she received the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award given by the Republic of India.
Spivak was born Gayatri Chakravorty in Calcutta, India, to Pares Chandra and Sivani Chakravorty. Spivak's great grandfather Pratap Chandra Majumdar had been Sri Ramakrishna’s doctor. Her father Paresh Chandra Chakrabarti was "initiated (given diksha)" by Sri Sarada Devi, and her mother Sivani Chakrabarti, by Swami Shivananda. After completing her secondary education at St. John's Diocesan Girls' Higher Secondary School, Spivak attended Presidency College, Kolkata under the University of Calcutta, from which she graduated in 1959. Spivak attended Cornell University, where she completed her MA in English and was one of the first women to be elected to membership in the Telluride House. She continued to pursue her PhD in comparative literature from Cornell while also teaching at the University of Iowa. Her dissertation, advised by Paul de Man, was on W.B. Yeats and titled Myself Must I Remake: The Life and Poetry of W.B. Yeats.
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