WRITER

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

1942 - Today

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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (IPA: gaĕòttri t͡ʃɔkkròbòr(t)ti) (born 24 February 1942) is an Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic. She is a University Professor at Columbia University and a founding member of the establishment's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Considered one of the most influential postcolonial intellectuals, Spivak is best known for her essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?" and her translation of and introduction to Jacques Derrida's De la grammatologie. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has received more than 1,405,591 page views. Her biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is the 1,664th most popular writer (up from 1,765th in 2019), the 213th most popular biography from India (down from 210th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Indian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ranks 1,664 out of 7,302. Before her are Anagarika Dharmapala, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Egon Kisch, Joseph Needham, Nina Berberova, and Walafrid Strabo. After her are Gampopa, Nicander, Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Martin Opitz, Edward Lear, and Quintus Smyrnaeus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ranks 156. Before her are Daniel Revenu, Péter Nádas, Michel Kafando, Bill Conti, Rajesh Khanna, and Robert F. Engle. After her are Yasuyuki Kuwahara, Thomas Cavalier-Smith, Karen Uhlenbeck, Stefanie Powers, Giuseppe Bertello, and Adil Abdul-Mahdi.

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In India

Among people born in India, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ranks 213 out of 1,861. Before her are Morarji Desai (1896), Charan Singh (1902), Tarabai (1675), Rajesh Khanna (1942), Śāntarakṣita (725), and Khudiram Bose (1889). After her are Ibrahim Lodi (1450), Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1907), Anna Leonowens (1831), Rajendra Chola I (1000), Anna Hazare (1937), and Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ranks 35. Before her are Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551), Mahadevi Varma (1907), Dnyaneshwar (1275), B. K. S. Iyengar (1918), Andal (800), and Kuvempu (1904). After her are Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1907), Anna Leonowens (1831), Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876), Mir Taqi Mir (1723), Surdas (1478), and Abdul-Qādir Bedil (1642).

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