Source — Wikipedia, "Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak"
- Title: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- Publication: Wikipedia
- URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayatri_Chakravorty_Spivak
- Type: tertiary — neutral encyclopedic stance; unauthored/crowd-edited.
- Accessed: 2026-08-30
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- Spivak is best known for her essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?" and for translating Jacques Derrida's De la grammatologie into English; her translator's introduction to that translation is described as setting "a new standard for self-reflexivity in prefaces."
- She has also translated Bengali fiction, including work by Mahasweta Devi, and received a 1997 Sahitya Akademi translation prize in India.
- Outside in the Teaching Machine (Routledge), which contains her essay "The Politics of Translation," was published in 1993 — this page confirms the collection's existence and date but does not describe the essay's content.
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- This page gives no account of "The Politics of Translation" itself — no mention of "surrender," "rhetoricity," or her argument about translating Third World women's writing into English. All of that, in the wiki page this source feeds, comes from the modlingua.com secondary source instead.
- Not checked against a primary reading of the essay itself (attempted this session via a PDF excerpt; the fetch tool could not render the PDF's text — see that page's own note).