Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s scientific contributions

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A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present
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June 1999

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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

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... In other words, the celebratory and mainstream notions of GCE erase the 'systemic, historical and ongoing colonial and racial violence' (Ibid.: 161) as the very conditions of producing the liberal global citizen. Here the Other is erased through an absence that has been discussed by Spivak (1999) in her critique of early Enlightenment philosophers. ...

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Development education and the scandal of the human: the grammar of silence and erasure.
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present
  • Citing Book
  • June 1999