Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Title

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

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Birth Date

1942

Birthplace

Ballygunge, Kolkata, India

Primary Sources

Spivak, G. C.  My Brother Burghardt, Harvard University Press, forthcoming

Spivak, G. C. (2022). Apter, E., Ganguly, A., and Pala, M.,(Eds.). Living Translation, University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/L/bo185897741.html

Spivak, G. C. (2012). Harlem, University of Chicago Press.  https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/H/bo14415810.html

Spivak, G. C. (2012.) An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization, Havard University Press. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674072381

Spivak, G. C. (2001). Moving Devi, Cultural Critique 47, 120-163.

Spivak, G. C. (2004). Righting wrongs. South Atlantic Quarterly, 103(2–3), 523–581. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-103- 2-3-523

Spivak, G. C. (1999). A critique of postcolonial reason: Toward a history of the vanishing present. Harvard University Press.

Spivak, G.C. (1998). Cultural Talks in Hot Peace. In P.C & B. Robbins (eds.), Cosmopolitics Thinking and Feeling beyond the Nation, University of Minnesota Press. 

Spivak, G. C. (1996). The spivak reader: selected works of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Psychology Press.

Spivak, G.C. (1993). A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present. Seagull Books.

Spivak, G. C., & Harasym, S. [1990] (2014). The post-colonial critic: Interviews, strategies, dialogues. Routledge.
https://archive.org/details/postcolonialcrit0000spiv,

Spivak, G.C. (1988). “Can the Subaltern Speak?”. In C. Nelson & L. Grossberg, Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, 271–315. University of Illinois Press.

Spivak, G. C. [1988] (2012). In other worlds: Essays in cultural politics. Routledge.
https://archive.org/details/inotherworldsess00spiv

Spivak, G.C & Guha, R. (ed.). (1988) Selected Subaltern Studies. Oxford University Press.
https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.12740/page/n55/mode/2up,

Spivak, G. C. [1988] (2012). Subaltern studies: Deconstructing historiography. In G.C. Spivak (ed.), In other worlds, 270-304. Routledge. https://api.taylorfrancis.com/content/chapters/edit/download?identifierName=doi&identifierValue=10.4324/9780203441114-18&type=chapterpdf

Spivak, G. C. (1985). Three women's texts and a critique of imperialism. Critical inquiry, 12(1), 243-261.

Secondary Sources

Sapiro, G., Santoro, M., & Baert, P. (2020). Ideas on the Move in the Social Sciences and Humanities (Vol. 31). Springer International Publishing.

Abdalkafor, O. (2015). Gayatri Spivak: Deconstruction and the Ethics of Postcolonial Literary Interpretation. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Morton, S. (2007). Gayatri Spivak: Ethics, subalternity and the critique of postcolonial reason. Polity.

Moore-Gilbert, B. J. (1997). Postcolonial theory: Contexts, practices, politics. Verso Books.

Extra Resources

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak — Du Bois in the World: Pan-Africanism & Decolonization, boundary 2 https://www.boundary2.org/2018/12/spivakondubois/
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Spivak, G. C. (2020) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak | W.E.B. Du Bois and Angela Davis on Abolition Democracy, Abolition Democracy, 13/13 Blog, Bernard Harcourt, University of Colombia,  https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/abolition1313/gayatri-chakravorty-spivak-w-e-b-du-bois-and-angela-davis-on-abolition-democracy/

Paulson, Steve. (2016). Critical intimacy: an interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Los Angeles Review of Books. Accessed March 14, 2022.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/critical-intimacy-interview-gayatri-chakravorty-spivak,

Rafaty, R. (2014) 24 April. Who will educate the educators? An interview with Gayatri Spivak, Kings Review, https://www.kingsreview.co.uk/interviews/who-will-educate-the-educators-an-interview-with-gayatri-spivak

Gayatri Spivak: The Trajectory of the Subaltern in My Work. (2008, February 8). University of California Television. YouTube.  Accessed March 14, 2022.
https://youtu.be/2ZHH4ALRFHw?t=78

Citation

“Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed April 14, 2026, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/804.

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