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