Spivak, Gayatri

Spivak, Gayatri

▪ Indian literary critic
in full  Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 
born Feb. 24, 1942, Calcutta, India

      Indian literary theorist, feminist critic, postcolonial theorist, and professor of comparative literature noted for her personal brand of deconstructive (deconstruction) criticism, which she called “interventionist.”

      Educated in Calcutta (B.A., 1959) and at the University of Cambridge and Cornell University (Ph.D., 1967), she taught English and comparative literature at the Universities of Iowa, Texas, Pittsburgh, and Pennsylvania and at Columbia University. She was appointed University Professor at Columbia in 2007.

      In 1976 Spivak published Of Grammatology, an English translation of French deconstructionist philosopher Jacques Derrida (Derrida, Jacques)'s  De la grammatologie (1967). In a series of later essays Spivak urged women to become involved in, and to intervene in, the evolution of deconstructive theory. She also urged her colleagues to focus on women's historicity. Critical of “phallogocentric” (imperialist (imperialism) as well as Marxist (Marxism)) historical interpretation, Spivak accused “bourgeois” Western feminists of complicity with international capitalism in oppressing and exploiting women of the developing world.

      Her critical writings include In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1987), The Post-Colonial Critic (1990), Thinking Academic Freedom in Gendered Post-Coloniality (1992), Outside in the Teaching Machine (1993), A Critique of Postcolonial Reason (1999), Death of a Discipline (2003), and Other Asias (2005).

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