Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

If one really thinks about the body as such, there is no possible outline of the body as such.

— Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry.

— Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

When we seem to have won or lost in terms of certainties, we must, as literature teachers in the classroom, remember such…

— Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Deconstruction seems to offer a way out of the closure of knowledge. By inaugurating the open-ended indefiniteness of textuality-by thus 'placing in…

— Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

“Politics of Friendship is, in other words, only a book between covers. For the real text, you must enter the classroom, put…

— Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

“Love is just a four letter word! (laughter) Because that’s what it is for me! I don’t know what it means... I…

— Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

“The social science fear the radical impulse in literary studies, and over the decades, we in the humanities have trivialized the social…

— Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

“Cultural Studies and Ethnic Studies are on the rise, and many minority protests that I have witnessed say, in effect, “Do not…

— Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

So capital is in fact borderless; that's the problem. On the other hand capital has to keep borders alive in order for…

— Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak