Spivak on the New Subaltern

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March 25, 2010

Spivak on the New Subaltern

Here is an entertaining and though-provoking—if also a tad dense—lecture by Columbia Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, a leading literary theorist and cultural critic (she is introduced in the video), well known for her essay, Can the Subaltern Speak?