Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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)