A recipient of numerous awards and honorary doctorates around the world, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak received the Padma Bhushan in 2013 Arijit Sen The words ‘academic’ and ‘superstar’ do not usually ...

Derrida has described his philosophic project as "a general strategy of deconstruction which would avoid both simply neutralizing the binary oppositions of metaphysics and simply residing, while ...

Not long after she started a rural literacy project in one of West Bengal’s poorest regions, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak — leading postcolonial critic, translator of Derrida, high priestess of literary ...

I am deeply honoured that the Sahitya Akademi have decided to acknowledge my efforts to translate the fiction of Mahasweta Devi. I want to begin by thanking Mahasweta Devi for writing such spectacular ...

Spivak, a University Professor in the Humanities, is widely recognized for her groundbreaking contributions to postcolonial theory, feminist critique, and literary studies. Her influential work, ...

Jacques Derrida, the thinker whose concept of “deconstruction” influenced at least two generations of scholarship in the humanities, died in Paris on Friday at the age of 74. The director of the ...

Literary theorist and award-winning critic Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak started her segment with a cheeky personal anecdote at a literary meet in Kolkata. “As I was coming here, my sister asked me, ...