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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, (born February 24, 1942), is a postcolonial literary critic and theorist of Indian extraction.
She was born Gayatri Chakravorty, in Calcutta, West Bengal, 24 February 1942, to a middle class family.
Spivak coined the term "strategic essentialism" which is critical for understanding how post-modernists can achieve a sort of temporary solidarity for the purpose of social action.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Gayatri_Chakravorty_Spivak   (370 words)

  
 Jacques Derrida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Geoffrey Bennington, Avital Ronell and Samuel Weber belong to a group of translators, many of whom are esteemed thinkers in their own right, with whom Derrida worked in a collaborative arrangement, allowing his prodigious output to be translated in a timely fashion.
Having started as a student of de Man, Gayatri Spivak took on the translation of Of Grammatology early in her career and has since revised it into a second edition.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Baltimore, MA and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Derrida   (5931 words)

  
 Presidential Lectures: Gayatri Spivak
Professor Spivak was born in India and received a B.A. at the University of Calcutta.
Professor Spivak is a scholar of deconstructive approaches to verbal, visual and social texts.
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)

  
 Stephen Morton
He is the author of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (2002) in the Routledge Critical Thinkers series.
Spivak,' Interventions: An International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 1.4 (1999), pp.
This study expands and develops some of the arguments presented in the introduction to Gayatri Spivak’s thought published in the Routledge Critical Thinkers series in 2002.
www.english.soton.ac.uk /morton.htm   (937 words)

  
 Introduction to Modern Literary Theory
Edward Said, for example, uses the word Orientalism to describe the discourse about the East constructed by the West.
include Edward Said (sah-EED), Homi Bhabha (bah-bah), Frantz Fanon (fah-NAWN), Gayatri Spivak, Chinua Achebe (ah-CHAY-bay), Wole Soyinka, Salman Rushdie, Jamaica Kincaid, and Buchi Emecheta.
Alterity - "lack of identification with some part of one's personality or one's community, differentness, otherness"
www.kristisiegel.com /theory.htm   (6076 words)

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