Conversations With Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Controversial challenging and outspoken Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is best known as a deconstructionist and postcolonial theorist. With an aweinspiring track record in several areas ranging from Feminism and Marxism to Literary Criticism and of course Postcolonialism 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 crisscrossings of the globe she engages with activists scholars and writers located in different cultural contexts from America to India to Macedonia and China.