...Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 [untitled] The bitter lesson that we have learned since the middle of the twen- tieth century is that national liberation is not a revolution. The world is full of postcolonial civil strife or class/gender apartheid...

...Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 2004 Terror: A Speech After 9-11 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 1 These ruminations arose in response to America’s war on terrorism.1 I started from the conviction...

...Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 2005 Addressing Human Rights Use and Abuse of Human Rights Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Argument: Responsibility-based cultures are long stagnating and un- prepared for the public sphere...

...Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 2005 Learning from de Man: Looking Back Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak I find in the logic of parabasis a descriptive figure of action. This for me is the lesson of de Man. I ask the reader...

...Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 2007 Religion, Politics, Theology: A Conversation with Achille Mbembe This conversation took place in May 2006 at the Humanities Research Institute at the University of California, Irvine. There were questions from...

...Pheng Cheah The President and Fellows of Harvard College 2006 Biopower and the New International Division of Reproductive Labor Pheng Cheah The signal contribution of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s essay “Can the Subaltern...

... heteronormativity” (Gayatri Spivak) across the secularism-­religion divide. The concluding section addresses the ambivalent relation between postcolonialism and European Enlightenment, and the challenge this sets up for postcolonial queer politics. I will engage with the task of ruthless cri- tique (Karl...

... and argues that the comparative methodology of tributary empires offers a productive guide for navigating the global turn in medieval studies. Gayatri Spivak posited the “death” of comparative literature in 2004 by claiming that the Old Philology—that is, the Indo-European philologies that dominated...

..., Academics (1990) and The Phantom Public Sphere (1993) and coedited Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling beyond the Nation (1998). He is a former coeditor of the journal Social Text. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and the director...

... Straight? A Queer Reading of Representations of and by Native Americans. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and the director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. Among her publications...

... Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak s criticism of Tel Quel s sinophily and specifically of Kristeva s book on Chinese women for not pursuing textual analysis of Chinese sources (Spivak 1981), Jullien s deep engagement with Chinese texts should be emphasized here in contrast. I will return to this later. De...

... World.” Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and the director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. Among her publications are Of Grammatology (translation with critical...

... in a speculative, and hence philosophical, discourse), the good (or best) example, that which makes ‘‘good’’ theory, is the ‘‘bad’’ (or difficult) example. Gayatri Spivak’s reading of the strate- gic and subversive exemplarity of the ‘‘subaltern’’ in the work of the Sub- altern Studies Collective...

... boundary 2. He died on September 25, 2003. The essay included in this volume appears in his forthcoming book, Humanism and Democratic Criticism. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and the director of the Center for Comparative Literature...

... of Race . London : Routledge . Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty . 1988a . “ Can the Subaltern Speak? ” In Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture , edited by Nelson Cary Grossberg Lawrence , 271 – 313 . Urbana : University of Illinois Press . Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty...

..., and a staunch opponent of economic sanctions; and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, literary critic, member of an English department (also at Columbia), translator of Jacques Derrida, and a prominent deconstructive critic in her own right, a scholar known for her concern with the subaltern. In an article...

... it with the Abgeschiedene, the one apart, the stranger, the wanderer. Whether ‘‘orphan’’ or ‘‘Abgeschiedene or, for that matter, ‘‘pariah’’ (Hannah Arendt) or ‘‘differend’’ or ‘‘jew’’ (Lyotard) or ‘‘catachrestic remainder’’ (Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak) or the ‘‘singular event’’ (Michel Foucault) or ‘‘specter’’ (Derrida...

... of their secular critique. But it also implies the inclina- tion to sharing social space with others, explored, for instance, in my own contribution here, as well as in those by Gayatri Spivak and Gil Hochberg. Hochberg’s essay revives and reinterprets the category of the Levantine, with its resonant colonial...

... © 2013 by Duke University Press 156 boundary 2 / Spring 2013 enforced coercion that they are. War is its most extreme signature, and, like all signatures, patriarchal. Our lesson is to act in the frac- tures of identities in struggle. —Gayatri Spivak, “Acting Bits...

...” is an attempt to elucidate the complex and problematical relation between Indian nationalism and the position of women in society. 14. Mann, “The Magic Idyll of Antiquated India,” 59–75. 15. See Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “How to Read a ‘Culturally Different’ Book,” in The Spivak Reader, ed. Donna Landry...