Gayatri Spivak

Columbia University

Bio

Gayatri Spivak is professor and founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.

Featured Work

Desolation and Enlightenment book cover

FEB 2, 2004 Article

Desolation and Enlightenment--History or Memory?

The "desolation" of the 20th century--the total war of the two World Wars, the totalitarian regimes of both the right and left, and the Holocaust--has ...