Cultural studies must remain self-critical about its own com... - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

"Cultural studies must remain self-critical about its own complicity."

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Education

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

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