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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (IPA: gaĕòttri t͡ʃɔkkròbòr(t)ti) FBA (born 24 February 1942) is an Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic. [1] She is a University Professor at Columbia University and a founding member of the establishment's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.
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 Spivak suggests that the subaltern is denied access to both mimetic and political forms of representation." Subaltern studies bibliography Archived 2013-06-07 at the Wayback Machine Biography and major publications for Spivak.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's seminal essay, Can the Subaltern Speak?, provides a critical perspective on the concept of "speaking truth to power" by examining how marginalized voices are often structurally silenced. Spivak argues that colonial and patriarchal systems create barriers that prevent marginalized groups—whom she refers to as the ...
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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, in a 1977 article published in Diacritics, interprets the columns as the legs of a woman, and Derrida's marginal notes as a male member in the act of penetration: "As the father's phallus works in the mother's hymen, between two legs, so Glas works at origins, between two columns, between Hegel and Genet." [9]
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.