Spivak for Connoisseurs

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Notes

¹ Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology (trans. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak) (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976).

² Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’, in Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg (eds), Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988), pp.271–313.

³ Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, ‘Criticism, Feminism and the Institution: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’, in Thesis Eleven, No.10/11 (1984–85), pp.175–89.

⁴ Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present (Cambridge, Mass. & London: Harvard University Press; Calcutta: Seagull Press, 1999).

⁵ Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Outside in the Teaching Machine (London & New York: Routledge, 1993), p.284.

⁶ Sangeeta Ray, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: In Other Words (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), p.1.

⁷ Terry Eagleton, Figures of Dissent: Critical Essays on Fish, Spivak, Žižek and Others (London & New York: Verso, 2003), p.160. Eagleton concedes in his ‘Preface’ that he is ‘also conscious enough of how vindictive reviewing can sometimes be’. The volume lists previously-published reviews of figures ranging from Branwell Brontë to David Beckham via some of the most important contemporary names in theory.

⁸ Ray, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, pp.1, 82.

⁹ See Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader (New York: Routledge, 2006); Mark Sanders, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (New York: Continuum, 2006); and Stephen Morton, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Routledge Critical Thinkers (London & New York: Routledge, 2003).

¹⁰ See Mridula Nath Chakraborty, ‘Everybody's Afraid of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Reading Interviews with the Public Intellectual and Postcolonial Critic’, in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol.35, no.3 (Spring 2010), pp.621–45.

¹¹ Ray, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, p.43. Spivak has translated many of Devi's Bengali stories into English. See Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Old Women (Calcutta: Seagull, 1999); Breast Stories (Calcutta: Seagull Books, 1997); Imaginary Maps (New York: Routledge, 1995); with Samik Bandyopadhyay, Bashai Tudu (Calcutta: Thema, 1993); In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (London: Metheun, 1987); and Chotti Munda and His Arrow (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 1980).

¹² Morton, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, p.5.

¹³ Robert Youing cited in ibid., p.21.

¹⁴ Asha Varadharajan, Exotic Parodies: Subjectivity in Adorno, Said and Spivak (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995), p.75.