Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is best known for her essay, “Can the Subaltern speak” which is considered a founding text of postcolonial literary theory. She describes herself as a “practical-Marxist, feminist, deconstructivist and has written much critical theory to challenge the legacies of colonialism.
Comparative Literature and the Subaltern
Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is best known for her essay, “Can the Subaltern speak” which is considered a founding text of postcolonial literary theory. She describes herself as a “practical-Marxist," feminist, deconstructivist and has written much critical theory to challenge the legacies of colonialism.