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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (born 24 February 1942) is an Indian literary theorist philosopher and University Professor at Columbia University where she is a founding member of the school’s Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. She is best known for the essay Can the Subaltern Speak? considered a founding text of postcolonialism; and for her translation of and introduction to Jacques Derrida’s De la grammatologie.

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birth date
1942-02-24
birth place
Kolkata, Presidencies and provinces of British India
era
20th-century philosophy
individualised GND number
11902747X
influenced by
Gilles Deleuze, Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Mahasweta Devi, Edward Said
main interest
History of ideas
notableIdea
Subaltern (postcolonialism), Strategic essentialism
philosophicalSchool
Post-structuralism, Postcolonialism

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