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	Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (born February 24, 1942) is a literary critic and theorist from India.
		Spivak currently teaches at Columbia University, though she is a popular speaker, invited to lecture around the world.
		Spivak was born Gayatri Chakravorty, in Calcutta, West Bengal, 24 February 1942, to a middle class family.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gayatri_Chakravorty_Spivak (503 words)

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		Spivak's point of intervention is to teach the reader to experience that place as (im)possible, as in the case of the figure she calls the Native Informant, and, in so doing, to acknowledge complicity in actuating the texts and systemic geopolitical textuality that make it so.
		Spivak's setting to work of this project in the teaching of literature is well enough known not to rehearse her readings of Brontë, Rhys, Mary Shelley, and Coetzee in the chapter on Literature.
		Although, as Spivak observes, Bhubaneswari Bhaduri was "a figure who intended to be retrieved" (246), and the survivors interpret her suicide, we are not dealing, in isolation, with epistemic coding, or with ethico-political coding alone, but with the permanent disruption of these and other codes in the writing Bhubaneswari left on her body.
	www3.iath.virginia.edu /pmc/text-only/issue.999/10.1.r_sanders.txt (4146 words)

	Politics and Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's book, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present, takes on two seemingly unrelated tasks - tracing a composite figure that she labels the Native Informant in philosophy, literature, history and culture and tracking her own progress from colonial discourse studies to transnational cultural studies.
		This is what Spivak intends, I think, when she admits that the book she has been reading, writing and editing has run away from her and it explains to some extent Spivak's deployment of de Manian versions of parabasis and allegory, especially in the first two sections.
		Despite the burden that Spivak places on her reader as she wades through this dense maze of a book that often leaves her with more questions than answers, the reminder that a recognition of local resistance demands the simultaneous recognition that all culture is invaginated in "civil" society is both timely and salutary.
	aspen.conncoll.edu /politicsandculture/printer_page.cfm?key=47 (961 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
		Gayatri Chakravorty was born in Calcutta on 24 February 1942, the year of the artificial famine in India and five years before India gained independence from British colonial rule.
		Spivak’s ongoing commentaries on and translations of the short stories and novels by the Bengali-language writer Mahasweta Devi (1926-) are an exemplary case in point because they articulate the lives and histories of the urban sub-proletariat, the rural-based peasantry and indigenous peoples.
		Spivak’s critical engagement with the Subaltern Studies historians is an exemplary case of this critical revision and reconstruction of Marxism in a post-colonial framework.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5906 (2399 words)

	LRB \| Terry Eagleton : In the Gaudy Supermarket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Spivak's language, lurching as it does from the high-toned to the streetwise, belongs to a culture where there is less and less middle ground between the portentous and the homespun, the rhetorical and the racy.
		Spivak is the worst-placed of critics to write the book which her title deceptively promises because she is too much the insider, as one of the major architects of the whole post-colonial enterprise in the West.
		Gayatri Spivak, by contrast, has kept faith, however ambiguously, with the socialist tradition; but though she has a good many striking perceptions about Marxism in this book, she is too deeply invested in feminism and post-colonialism to launch a full-scale socialist critique of these currents.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v21/n10/eagl01_.html (3775 words)

	art orbit spivak
		Spivak indeed widens the scope to include all people that can be said to be subordinate in relation to the observer, the one who describes.
		Born in Calcutta, educated at a prestigious university like the Cornell, Spivak is herself a good example of the "enabling violence" she talks about as a consequence of colonialism.1 Spivak is now on the top of a career built on elaborations on the consequences of colonialism, in post-colonial theory.
		She is known for having introduced Jacques Derrida´s Of Grammatology (1967, translated by Spivak in 1976) to the American audience.3 Her work evolves around issues of pedagogy, the possibilities of creating a genuinely transcultural cultural studies program, gender-class subordination, counter strategies to (post-) colonial subordination, and a rigorous recognition of difference.
	www.artnode.se /artorbit/issue1/f_spivak/f_spivak.html (1891 words)

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		Spivak's strategy is deconstructivist, like that of a good lawyer: when on defense, prod the prosecution's narrative until the cracks begin to appear and when prosecuting, piece together a case by understanding the criminal's motivation.
		Because her attempt at "speaking" outside normal patriarchal channels was not understood or supported, Spivak concluded that "the subaltern cannot speak." Her extremely nuanced argument, admittedly confounded by her sometimes opaque style, led some incautious readers to accuse her of phallocentric complicity, of not recognizing or even not letting the subaltern speak.
		Spivak is particularly leery of the misappropriation of the term by those who simply want to claim disenfranchisement within the system of hegemonic discourse, i.e.
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Glossary.html (1268 words)

	Politics and Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It is a credit to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak that in her work "the intervention" has maintained its exasperating and lacerating aim to walk into the most incisive and unapparent of crises.
		Spivak's valorization of the "educative power" she locates in Walter Benjamin's "Essay on Violence" is indicative of her desire to incorporate the imperatives of impotentiality and non-decision into an array of pedagogical practices that assert only possibility, edification, development and productivity as their mandates.
		Spivak argues that the space of politics is one uninhabitated by sisters.
	aspen.conncoll.edu /politicsandculture/page.cfm?key=324 (1717 words)

	Rhetoric and Cultural Explanation: A Discussion with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Although Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is somewhat unfamiliar with the field of rhetoric and composition, the common concerns addressed in the following interview underscore the extent to which the boundaries separating rhetoric and composition, literary theory, and cultural criticism are shifting—and are, to some extent, illusory.
		In her initial definition of rhetoric, Spivak at once sharply challenges the restriction of rhetoric to tropology and strongly identifies rhetoric with deconstructive theory.
		Spivak agrees that rhetoric refigured as a techne, or art, deconstructs the binary of theory and practice—not, however, by creating for itself a new place of privilege.
	jac.gsu.edu /jac/10.2/Articles/5.htm (4664 words)

	Women Against Fundamentalisms
		In her article, Gayatri Spivak makes an impassioned claim both against an alleged focus on abortion within the international reproductive rights movement, and for the centrality of population control as the focus of this movement.
		Gayatri Spivak is an influential writer, and, in presenting herself as a South Asian, she also implicitly presents herself as a representative of women of the South, who, she believes, have an intrinsically different interest in reproductive rights from those in the North.
		Gayatri Spivak is right that these issues are insufficiently addressed by many Northern feminists who tend to see reproductive rights out of any political or economic context, and thus unwittingly, play into the hands of the population controllers.
	waf.gn.apc.org /journal7p5.htm (1817 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Routledge Critical Thinkers S.): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Spivak is less well known in comparison with some of the thinkers in this series, but her impact in modern critical thinking has gone far beyond narrow intellectual confines to influence in many fields impacted with the thinking of the postmodern world; these include psychology, politics, literature, sociology, philosophy, linguistics, history and anthropology.
		Spivak was heavily influenced by the major critical thinkers, particularly Derrida and de Man (Paul de Man was her dissertation director).
		Spivak is very much different from another major thinker in post-colonial theory, Edward Said, in that she looks for contemporary literary theory to help reveal, rather than obscure, social and political relationships.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0415229359 (1658 words)

	Gayatri Spivak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Professor Spivak is active in rural literacy teacher training on the grassroots level in Aboriginal India and Bangladesh.
		In 1996-7, Professor Spivak has delivered keynote addresses, at the Linguisticulture Conference at The University of Osaka, at the steirische Herbst in Graz (Austria), at the Lancaster University (UK) Conference on Transformation through Feminism, at documenta X (Germany), at the Johannesburg and Kwangju (Korea) biennales.
		Professor Spivak is known as a scholar of deconstructive textual analysis of verbal, visual, and social texts and as a global feminist Marxist.
	columbia.edu /cu/philosophy/Faculty/_facultypages/gayatrispivak.html (590 words)

	Imaginary Maps, Gayatri Spivak: Marxist-feminist approach to post-coloni
		Spivak explodes the scope and impact of these stories, conncecing the necessary "power lines" not only between local and international structures of power (patriarchy, nationalism, late capitalism), but tracing them to the very door of the university" Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University.
		Spivak: Marxist, Feminist, Deconstructionist Benjamin Graves '98, Brown University If Spivak's chief concern can be summarized as a wariness of the limitations of cultural studies, what's particularly interesting about her engagement of the postcolonial predicament is the uneasy marriage of marxism, feminism, and deconstruction that underlies her critical work.
		Spivak's description of the Third World becoming a "signifier that allows us to forget that 'worlding'" resembles in many ways Marx's notion of the commodity fetish that he describes in volume one of Kapital.
	www.mail-archive.com /pen-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu/msg14333.html (626 words)

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		Spivak provides another good demonstration of how to talk Derridean when she is asked about the distinction between theory and practice and whether she sees Aristotle’s concept of techne as a deconstruction of the theory/practice binary.
		Spivak points out very clearly that deconstruction has nothing to do with destroying oppositions, the kind of thing that internalists imagine must be going on when binary oppositions are mentioned.
		Spivak lapses into an internalist vocabulary when she speaks of writing as a skill that can be taught outside the discourses where writing occurs: “I think there have to be places where you do nothing but the skill, and then the application of the skill develops” (303).
	jac.gsu.edu /jac/11.1/ReaderResponse/3.htm (2353 words)

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		Despite her outsider status -- or partly, perhaps, because of it -- Spivak is widely cited in a range of disciplines.
		Her work is nearly evenly split between dense theoretical writing peppered with flashes of compelling insight and published interviews in which she wrestles with many of the same issues in a more personable and immediate manner.
		It is not intended as a "bluffer's guide to Spivakism" (to cite the introduction to The Spivak Reader) but rather blazes on a trail into this difficult and important body of work.
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Spivak.html (572 words)

	Interview - Lovink/Spivak
		"Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, born in India, is a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University in New York.
		Her name is primarily associated with the concept of postcolonial studies and along with Edward Said and Homi Bhabba she is regarded to be one of the most important representatives of this Anglo-American theoretical field.
		Her literary analyses and theoretical writings have invariably dealt with the deconstruction of neocolonial discourses and a feminist-Marxist approach to postcolonialism, particularly to the schematized forms of representing women in the Third World.
	www.kunstradio.at /FUTURE/DX/EVENTS/geert-spivak.html (2172 words)

	Literary Arts Expert Named UH Citizens Chair
		Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa’s English department’s Citizens’ Chair, will present a lecture entitled “The Humanities in the 21st Century,” on Sunday, March 23, at 2 p.m.
		Spivak received her B.A. at the University of Calcutta (1959) and her M.A. (1962) and Ph.D. (1967) from Cornell University.
		Spivak is active in rural literacy teacher training at the grassroots level in Aboriginal India and Bangladesh.
	www.uhm.hawaii.edu /cgi-bin/uhnews?20030317162738 (334 words)

	Harvard University Press: A Critique of Postcolonial Reason
		In her first full treatment of postcolonial studies, a field that she helped define, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the world's foremost literary theorists, poses these questions from within the postcolonial enclave.
		Throughout, the notion of a Third World interloper as the pure victim of a colonialist oppressor emerges as sharply suspect: the mud we sling at certain seemingly overbearing ancestors such as Marx and Kant may be the very ground we stand on.
		Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/SPICRI.html (231 words)

	Presidential Lectures: Gayatri Spivak
		Professor Spivak was born in India and received a B.A. at the University of Calcutta.
		Professor Spivak has been active in hands-on educational reform and teacher training in aboriginal India for about a decade, and is active in other social movements.
		Chandra Talpade Mohanti and Sara Suleri..." and is Spivak's "...attempt to look around the corner, to see herself [oursleves] as others would see her [us]." As footnotes become the foundation stones of the main text, Spivak addresses feminists, philosophers, critics and activists as they converge and diverge in the game of global political economy.
	prelectur.stanford.edu /lecturers/spivak (580 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: Gayatri Spivak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Known for her ample erudition and opaque theoretical texts, Spivak combines abstract philosophical speculation and personal reflection, creating a dicourse that is both intimate and obtuse.
		Approaching discourses and institutions from the margins is more than a preference for Spivak, as she is often cast as an outsider or marginal figure herself.
		Spivak’s renown initially stemmed from her translation of Jacques Derrida's Deconstructive monograph "Of Grammatology"; the introduction she wrote for the book enjoys a reputation as one of the few texts that rivals the opacity of Derrida's own writing.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?wosid=NO&id=1068 (547 words)

	Death of a Discipline; ; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
		Spivak deftly opposes the 'migrant intellectual'approach to the study of alterity.
		In its place, she insists upon a practice of cultural translation that resists the appropriation by dominant power and engages in the specificity of writing within subaltern sites in the idiomatic and vexed relation to the effacements of cultural erasure and cultural appropriation.
		Spivak demonstrates how critics interested in social justice should pay close attention to literary form and offers new interpretations of classics such as Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/cup/catalog/data/023112/0231129440.HTM (657 words)

	Gayatri Spivak Profile
		Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, New York.
		Across the disciplines, in professional schools, outside the academy, and in activist circles, Professor Spivak is invited to deliver keynote addresses.
		Professor Spivak has been elected to the Advisory Board of the English Institute, to the Executive Board of the International Center for Writing and Translation, and to the Analytical Circle on the newly-established ambitious British think tank, Zamyn.
	www.humanities.uci.edu /icwt/whoweare/gspivak.html (370 words)

	spivak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The text of the symposium does not contain a hidden ideological truth but is operated by as it operates an imperfectly hidden ideological agenda; that is one of its structural alterities.
		Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.
		She is the translator of Jacques Derrida's De la grammatologie and is presently finishing a book in the areas of Marxist feminism and deconstructive practice.
	uchicago.edu /research/jnl-crit-inq/issues/date/v1-v19/v9n1.spivak.html (305 words)

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		As the quotation above indicates, her notion of "strategy" strives for a political accountability, for a situated reading that prioritizes a local context that by definition cannot function as a blanket "theory" that is then applied to all like-sounding cases.
		"A strategy suits a situation," she reminds us, "a strategy is not theory." While Spivak's work on "strategic essentialisms" is well known, and often misunderstood as an excuse to proselytize on the virtue of academic "essentialisms," her particular articulation of the critical necessity of the notion of "strategy" itself has often been overlooked.
		Both, she argues, need to be undertaken in the spirit of daily maintenance, and unlike a surgical operation, should not be expected to bring about a drastic recovery or change.
	www3.iath.virginia.edu /pmc/text-only/issue.596/review-4.596 (2474 words)

	the untimely past bibliographies / subaltern studies, etc.
		He carefully presents the complex work of the three principal representations of postcolonial theory, Gayatri Spivak, Edward Said and Homi Bhabha, and considers the criticisms they have faced from an alleged Eurocentrism to an obfuscatory prose style.
		Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, "The Rani of Sirmur: An Essay in Reading the Archives." History and Theory 24 (1985), 247-272.
		It ranges from Kant's notion of a Third World interloper as the pure victim of a colonialist oppressor emerges as sharply suspect: the mud we sling at certain seemingly overbearing ancestors such as Marx and Kant may be the very ground we stand on.
	www.untimelypast.org /bibsub.html (2608 words)

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