To write responsibly is to acknowledge the limits of what on... - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

"To write responsibly is to acknowledge the limits of what one can know and say."

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Scholar, Postcolonial Theorist Indian-American Born 1942 (age 84)

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