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Spivak was born Gayatri Chakravorty in Calcutta, India, to a Bengali family. Her father was Pares Chandra Chakravorty and mother was Sivani Chakravorty. [10] 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.
Strategic essentialism, a major concept in postcolonial theory, was introduced in the 1980s by the woman Indian literary critic and theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. [1] It refers to a political tactic in which minority groups, or ethnic groups mobilize on the basis of shared identity attributes to represent themselves.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's theory of alterity was introduced in a 2014 symposium titled Remaking History, the intention of which was to challenge the masculine orthodoxy of history writing. [ 5 ] According to Spivak, it is imperative for one to uncover the histories and inherent historical behaviors in order to exercise an individual right to ...
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Postcolonialism in international relations provides the opportunity to give agency to the Third World, pluralizing the subaltern voices heard in the discipline. In mainstream IR, efforts to naturalize historical discourses and accounts of knowledge further emboldens the discipline's Eurocentric roots and in turn ...
Indian philosopher and theorist Gayatri Spivak, seen here giving a speech at the Internationaler Kongress in Berlin. The historian Fernando Coronil said that his goal as an investigator must be "to listen to the subaltern subjects, and to interpret what I hear, and to engage them and interact with their voices. We cannot ascend to a position of ...
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Spivak also introduced the terms essentialism and strategic essentialism to describe the social functions of postcolonialism. Essentialism denotes the perceptual dangers inherent to reviving subaltern voices in ways that might (over) simplify the cultural identity of heterogeneous social groups and, thereby, create stereotyped representations ...
To Gayatri). This book is a collection of romantic poems written for Majumdar's contemporary Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. [2] [3] The book is also dedicated to Gayatri Chakravorty. [4] The word "Chaka" which means "Chakra" is Sanskrit, was a part of Gayatri Chakravorty's surname. This book is considered as the most famous book of Majumdar.