To claim authority is already to claim a position from which... - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

"To claim authority is already to claim a position from which some are excluded."

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Power

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

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