Gayatri C. Spivak
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- See also Wikipedia's article about "Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak".
- See also Gayatri C. Spivak's entry in Columbia's directory.
- See also Culpa reviews of Gayatri C. Spivak.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is a vociferous literary critic who was named a University Professor in March 2007. She is also a founder of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, a participant in elementary and intermediate Chinese classes, and an occasional instructor, on leave in Spring 2008.
She is a noted expert and translator of the ideas of Jacques Derrida, and is known for helping found the discipline of postcolonialism altogether, particularly the concept of the subaltern.[1] She has also been name-checked in a song by electro-punk band Le Tigre.
[edit] Criticism
Some students have found Spivak's methods of instruction arbitrary, capricious, and vain. One attempt to team-teach a course with Hamid Dabashi led to legendarily disastrous results.[2]
Her scholarship has been criticized for using "unreadable jargon" and forcing a false dichotomy between "white, Western, imperialist males" and "designated, politically correct victims" on her opponents to bludgeon them into submission. [3]
[edit] References
- ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZHH4ALRFHw
- ↑ http://www.culpa.info/?root=csearch&process=browse&target=INTRO%2520TO%2520COMP%2520LIT%2520%26%2520SOCIETY%2520Call%2520Number%252048458%2520
- ↑ http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/Summer2007/Letters.html
[edit] External links
- Gayatri C. Spivak - Faculty Profile, Comparative Literature and Society department
- Press release announcing Gayatri Spivak's appointment as University Professor
