The question of value cannot be separated from questions of ... - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

"The question of value cannot be separated from questions of power."

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Justice

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

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