Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Born: February 24, 1942 (age 83)
Bio: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic. She is University Professor at Columbia University, where she is a founding member of Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.
Known for:
- A critique of postcolonial reason (1999)
- Outside in the teaching machine (1993)
- The post-colonial critic (1990)
- Death of a discipline (2003)
- In other worlds (1987)