Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, 2015 February 18, 2015 May 19 Box 3
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- culture, feminism, Marx, Derrida, and globalization.
, and IRWGS. Spivak shares the topics she explored at IRWGS—feminism and psychoanalysis, global feminism
, feminism and de-colonization—and her role in the foundation of Columbia's Institute for Comparative - Abstract Or Scope
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In this interview, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak discusses her decision to come teach at Columbia University, drawn by New York City, her friend and colleague Palestinian literary theoretician Edward Said, and IRWGS. Spivak shares the topics she explored at IRWGS—feminism and psychoanalysis, global feminism, feminism and de-colonization—and her role in the foundation of Columbia's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Spivak discusses the nature of the discipline of comparative literature and its relationship to other departments. Spivak goes on to talk about gender studies and the climate for feminism at other institutions, including: the University of Pittsburgh, Emory University, University of Texas Austin, University of Iowa, and Cornell University. Spivak also discusses feminism in her childhood and her unconventional upbringing in India. Spivak addresses tokenism and the challenges of being a female professor of color. She also talks about her Rural Education Project, her activism, her mother's activism, and being inspired by Malcolm X.