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Controversial, challenging and outspoken, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is best known as a deconstructionist and post-colonial theorist. With an awe-inspiring track record in several areas, ranging from Feminism and Marxism to Literary Criticism and of course, Post-colonialism, she has built a reputation for being simultaneously at home and an outsider in many disciplines. The interviews collected in this volume reflect the international character of her intellectual engagement as, in her criss-crossings of the globe, she engages with activists, scholars and writers located in different cultural contexts, from America to India to Macedonia and China.

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'She is among the most coruscatingly intelligent of all contemporary theorists.' Terry Eagleton

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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak was born and educated in Calcutta, before moving to the USA, where she is now Avalon Foundation Professor at Columbia University. She is author of numerous works including In Other Worlds, The Postcolonial Critic, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason and Death of a Discipline.

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