Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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About
A literary theorist who was best known for the important post-colonial work Can the Subaltern Speak? She also won the Padma Bhushan award.
Before fame
She earned her M.A. in English from Cornell University.
Trivia
She became the first non-white University Professor at Columbia University in its over 260-year history.
Family life
She was married to writer Talbot Spivak for a short time in the 1960s.
Associated with
She and French poet Aime Cesaire both spoke out against colonialism.
