Writing is an attempt to bridge the gap between consciousnes... - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

"Writing is an attempt to bridge the gap between consciousness and expression, but the gap remains."

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Art

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

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