Quote of the day
Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.
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)