Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak writes literary theory, postcolonial criticism and philosophy about representation, translation, gender and the limits of speaking for marginalised people. 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' examines how colonial power and intellectual discourse can erase the voices they claim to recover. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason moves across philosophy, literature and history to question how Europe constructs its others, while her English translation of Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology includes an influential critical introduction. Spivak's writing is dense, technical and highly allusive, requiring familiarity with continental philosophy and literary theory. Her work fits postcolonial studies, deconstruction, feminist theory and subaltern studies. Read more Less
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