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VITA Spivak
VITA Spivak
into Italian, Critica della ragione postcoloniale: verso una storia del
presente in dissolvenza (Florence: Meltemi Editore, 2004);
translated into Korean (Galmuri, 2005) (awarded 2005 best book
award in the field of translation by the South Korean Ministry of
Culture; second edition forthcoming); chapter on Culture translated
into German in Postkoloniale Soziologie: Empirische Befunde,
theoretische Anschlusse, politische Intervention (Bielefeld:
[transcript], 2010), p. 47-96; translated into German (Frankfurt:
Kohlhammer, 2009; forthcoming); translated into Turkish (Doruk
Publications, 2009); Chinese translation forthcoming; translated into
Spanish 2010; translated into Polish (Warsaw: Krytyka, 2012).
Song for Kali: A Cycle (translation with introduction of Ramproshad Sen,
18th-century Bengali poet), Calcutta: Seagull, 2000.
Chotti Munda and His Arrow (translation with critical introduction of a novel
by Mahasweta Devi), Kolkata: Seagull, 2002; Oxford: Blackwell,
2003.
Death of a Discipline, New York: Columbia University Press, 2003;
translated into Italian (Rome: Meltemi Editore, 2003); translated into
Japanese (Tokyo: Misuzu Shobo, 2004); translated into Spanish
(Editoriale de la Universidad Veracruzana, 2007),
What is Gender? Where is Europe? Walking With Balibar, Florence:
European University Institute, 2006; translated into Spanish (ejournal, Sociedad y Discuso, 2009).
Conversations with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, New York: Seagull Books,
2006; translated into Japanese (Iwanami Shoten, 2008).
Who Sings the Nation-State?, with Judith Butler, New York: Seagull Books,
2007; translated into German as Sprache, Politik, Zugehrigkeit
(diaphanes, 2007); translated into French as LEtat Global (Payot,
2007); reprinted in Adam Budak et. al. eds. Manifesta 7 Companion
(Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2008), p. 363-367; translated into Korean
(Woongjin Think Big Co., Ltd., 2008); to be translated into Arabic by
Abid Hammadi (forthcoming).
Other Asias, Oxford: Blackwell, 2008; translated into Korean (Seoul:
Ulyuck, 2010); translated into Spanish (Ediciones AKAL, 2011).
Unrecht richten, Zurich: diaphanes, 2008.
Postkolonialitt und subalterne Artikulation, Wien: Turia + Kant, 2008.
The Letter as Cutting Edge, Yale French Studies, 15/16 (1977), p. 208226; reprinted in Shoshana Felman, ed. Literature and
Psychoanalysis: Reading Otherwise (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press,
1982), p. 208-226.
Anarchism Revisited: A New Philosophy, Diacritics, 7.2 (Summer 1978),
p. 66-79 (with Michael Ryan).
Feminism and Critical Theory, Womens Studies International Quarterly,
1 (1978), p. 241-246.
Explanation and Culture: Marginalia, Humanities in Society, 2.3 (Summer
1979), p. 201-221; reprinted in Russell Ferguson et al, eds. Out
There: Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures (Cambridge: MIT
Press, 1990), p. 377-393.
Three Feminist Readings: McCullers, Drabble, Habermas, Union Seminary
Quarterly Review, 35.1,2 (Fall-Winter 1979-80), p. 15-34; extract
reprinted in Beverly Lyon Clark and Melvin J. Friedman, eds. Critical
Essays on Carson McCullers (New York: G. K. Hall, 1996), p. 129-142.
Review Essay on Robert R. Magliola, Phenomenology and Literature: An
Introduction, Modern Fiction Studies, 25.4 (Winter 1979-80), p. 758760.
A Dialogue on the Production of Literary Journals, the Division of the
Disciplines and Ideology Critique with Professors Gayatri Spivak, Bill
Galston, and Michael Ryan, Analecta, 6 (1980), p. 72-87.
Unmaking and Making in To the Lighthouse, Sally McConnel-Ginet et al,
eds. Women and Language in Literature and Society (New York:
Praeger Publishers, 1980), p. 310-327.
Revolutions That As Yet Have No Model: Derridas Limited Inc., Diacritics,
10.4 (Winter 1980), p. 29-49.
Finding Feminist Readings: Dante-Yeats, Social Text, 3 (Fall 1980), p. 7387; reprinted in Ira Konigsberg, ed. American Criticism in the
Poststructuralist Age (Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1981), p.
42-65; reprinted in G.R. Taneja, ed. W. B. Yeats: An Anthology of
Recent Criticism (Delhi: SanPark, 1995), p. 137-150.
Il faut sy prendre en sen prennant elles, Les Fins de lhomme, ed.
Phillipe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy (Paris: Galile, 1981),
p. 505-516.
Sex and History in The Prelude (1805), Books Nine to Thirteen, Texas
Studies in Literature and Language, XXII.iii (Fall 1981), p. 324-360;
reprinted in Christopher Norris and Richard Machin, eds. PostStructuralist Readings of English Poetry (Cambridge: Cambridge
Univ. Press, 1987), p. 193-226.
Reading the World: Literary Studies in the 80s, College English, 43.7
(November 1981), p. 671-679; reprinted in G. Douglas Atkins and
Michael L. Johnson, eds. Writing and Reading Differently:
Deconstruction and the Teaching of Composition and Literature
(Lawrence, Kansas: Univ. Press of Kansas, 1985), p. 27-37.
French Feminism in an International Frame, Yale French Studies, 62
(1981), p. 154-184; conclusion reprinted in Camille Roman, Suzanne
Juhasz and Cristanne Miller, eds. The Women and Language Debate:
A Sourcebook (New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1993), p. 101104; excerpt reprinted in Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, eds.
Oxford Readers: Feminisms (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998), p.5154.
Draupadi by Mahasweta Devi, Critical Inquiry, 7.2 (Winter 1981), p.
381-402; reprinted in Elizabeth Abel, ed. Writing and Sexual
Difference (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1982), reprinted in Dilip
K. Basu and Richard Sisson, eds. Social and Economic Development
(New Delhi: Sage, 1986), p. 215-240; p. 262-282; reprinted in
Illustrated Weekly of India, 3.29 (July 20-26, 1991), p. not available;
included in course-book for Open Learning course for Westminster
College (Oxford); reprinted in Khushwant Singh and Neelam Kumar,
eds. Our Favourite Indian Stories, p. not available; reprinted in Paul
James and Phillip Darby, eds. Globalization and Violence: Colonial
and Postcolonial Globalizations (London: Sage, 2006), v.2, p. 59-79.
The Politics of Interpretations, Critical Inquiry, 9.1 (September 1982), p.
259-278; reprinted in W. J. T. Mitchell, ed. The Politics of
Interpretation (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1983), p. 347-366;
reprinted in Esther Fuchs, ed. Feminist Hermeneutics: A
Multidisciplinary Approach (forthcoming).
Review Essay on Beatrice Farnsworth, On Aleksandra Kollontai, Minnesota
Review, n.s. 20 (Spring 1983), p. 93-102.
Some Thoughts on Evaluation, Mark Axelrod et al, eds. CLAM Chowder
(Minneapolis: Comp. Lit. Association of Minnesota, 1983), p. 60-74.
Displacement and the Discourse of Woman, Mark Krupnick, ed.
Displacement: Derrida and After (Bloomington: Univ. of Indiana
Press, 1983), p. 169-195; extract reprinted in Antony Easthope and
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Love, Cruelty, and Cultural Talks in the Hot Peace, parallax 1 (November
1995), p. 1-31; extract reprinted in Pheng Cheah and Bruce Robbins,
eds. Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nation
(Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1998), p.329-348; reprinted
in Spanish translation in Criterio (Cuba).
Lives, H. Aram Veeser, ed. Confessions of the Critics (New York:
Routledge, 1996), p. 205-220.
Further Notes on Imperialism Today, Against the Current 11.3 (JulyAugust 1996), p. 20-21.
Diasporas Old and New: Women in a Transnational World, Textual
Practices 10.2 (1996), p. 245-269; reprinted in Amitava Kumar, ed.
Class Issues: Pedagogy, Cultural Studies, and the Public Sphere (New
York: New York Univ. Press, 1997), p.87-116; reprinted in Peter
Pericles Trifonas, ed. Revolutionary Pedagogies: Cultural Politics,
Instituting Education, and the Discourse of Theory (New York:
Routledge, 2000), p. 3-29; reprinted in German translation in Femina
Politica 2/2009, (2009), p. 19-31; reprinted in Portuguese translation
in Vera Queiroz, ed. Critica Literria Feminista Anglo-Americana
(Brazil: CNPq, forthcoming).
Running Interference (interview with Julie Stephens), Australian Womens
Book Review 7.2 (June 1995), p. 19-22 and 7.2.4 (Nov. 1995), p. 2628; reprinted in longer form as Cultural Dominance at its Most
Benevolent: Interview with Julie Stephens, Arena Journal New
Series, 6 (1996), p. 35-50.
Setting to Work (Transnational Cultural Studies), in Peter Osborne, ed. A
Critical Sense: Interviews with Intellectuals (London: Routledge,
1996), p. 163-177.
Transnationality and Multiculturalist Ideology, in Deepika Bahri and Mary
Vasudeva, eds. Between the Lines: South Asians and Postcoloniality
(Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 1996), p. 64-88.
Scattered Speculations on the Question of Linguisticulture, Takayuki
Yokota-Murakami, ed. Proceedings of the International Symposium
on Linguisticulture: Where Do We Go From Here? (Osaka, Japan:
The Organizing Committee for the International Symposium on
Linguisticulture: Where Do We Go From Here?, December 16,
1996), p. i-viii.
At Home With Others, catalogue essay for exhibition on Dislocations,
Rovaniemi Art Museum (Rovaniemi, Finland: 1997), n.p.
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American Gender Studies Today (with Camille Paglia, Donna Landry and
Jane Gallop), Women: A Cultural Review 10.2 (1999), p.213-219.
Translation as Culture, Isabel Carrera Surez et al, eds. Translating
Cultures (Oviedo: Dangaroo Press, 1999), p. 17-30; reprinted in
parallax 14 (January-March 2000), p.13-24; reprinted in Paul St.
Pierre and Prafulla C. Kar, eds., In Translation: Reflections,
Refractions, Transformations (New Delhi: Pencraft International,
2005), p. 238-250; in Portuguese translation in Ilha do Desterro
(EdUFSC, 48 Jan/Jun 2005), p.41-64; extract printed in translation
(inaugural issue, 2011), p. 64-65.
Report by the Denotified Nomadic Tribal Right Action Group: An
Interview, Interventions 1.4 (1999), p.590-604.
Dialogue: The Future of Feminism, Feminist Review 64 (Spring 2000),
p.116-118.
Schmitt and Post-Structuralism: A Response, Cardozo Law Review, 21.56 (May 2000), p. 1723-1737.
Foreword: Upon Reading the Companion to Postcolonial Studies, Henry
Schwarz and Sangeeta Ray, eds. A Companion to Postcolonial
Studies (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000), p. xv-xxii.
Moving at the Global Spectrum, Barnes & Nobles Academic Webpage
Interview.
From Haverstock Hill Flat to US Classroom, Whats Left of Theory? Judith
Butler et al, eds. Whats Left of Theory?: New Work on the Politics of
Literary Theory (New York: Routledge, 2000), p. 1-40.
Thinking Cultural Questions in Pure Literary Terms, Paul Gilroy et al,
eds, Without Guarantees: In Honor of Stuart Hall (London: Verso,
2000), p. 335-357.
The New Subaltern: A Silent Interview, Vinayak Chaturvedi, ed. Mapping
Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial (London: Verso, 2000), p.324340.
Deconstruction and Cultural Studies: Arguments for a Deconstructive
Cultural Studies, Nicholas Royle, ed. Deconstructions (Oxford:
Blackwell, 2000), p.14-43.
Megacity, Grey Room 1 (Fall 2000), p. 8-25; reprinted in Spanish
translation as Megaciudad, ngel Martn Ramos, ed., Lo urbano en
20 autores contemporneos (Barcelona: ETSAB, 2004), p. 199-206.
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World Systems and the Creole, Narrative 14.6 (Jan 2006), p. 102-112.
Introduction to Nicole Rizzuto, Reading Sarah Kofmans Testimony to Les
Annes Noires in Rue Ordener, Rue Labat, Contemporary French
and Francophone Studies, 10.1 (January 2006), p. 5-6.
Kulturelle Identitt, in Susanne Knaller and Harro Mller, eds.,
Authentizitt: Diskussion eines sthetischen Begriffs (Mnchen:
Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2006), p. 68-81.
Are You Postcolonial? To the Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European
Literatures, PMLA 121.3 (May 2006), p. 828-829; reprinted in
Frontier 39.10-13 (September 2006), p. 6-8.
Culture Alive, Theory, Culture & Society 23.2-3 (March-May 2006), p.
359-360.
Gayatri Spivak, Interviewed by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Naked Punch 1.8
(2006), p. 35-45.
Close Reading, PMLA 121.5 (October 2006), p. 1608-1617.
The Politics of Mourning (with Eduardo Cadava), in Gregg Lambert and
Aaron Levy, eds. Rrrevolutionnaire: Conversations in Theory
(Philadelphia: Slought Books, 2006), vol. 1 p. 115-130.
Why Planet?: Intellectual Autobiography, in Italian translation in Sergia
Adamo, ed. Culture planetarie? Prospettive e limiti della teoria e
della critica culturale (Rome : Meltemi editore, 2007), p. 41-58.
Human Rights and the Other, Conversation with Davide Zoletto, in
Italian translation in aut aut 333, (Jan/Mar 2007), p. 84-107.
Reading Orientalism Thirty Years Later, In Istanbul, in Turkish translation
in Uluslararasi Oryantalizm Semporzyumu: 9-10 Aralik 2006
(Istanbul: Bykehir Belediyesi, 2007), p. 13-26.
Religion, Nationalism, and Politics: A Conversation with Achille Mbembe,
boundary 2 34.2 (Summer 2007), p. 149-170.
Nationalism and the Imagination, in C. Vijayasree, Meenakshi Mukherjee,
and Harish Trivedi, eds. Nation in Imagination: Essays on
Nationalism, Sub-Nationalisms and Narration (Hyderabad: Orient
Longman, 2007), p. 1-20; reprinted in Italian translation in aut aut
329 (Jan/Mar 2006), p. 65-90; reprinted in Lectora: Revista de Dones
i Textualitat 15 (2009), p. 75-98.
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Thinking About Lore Metzger: Pages from A Memoir, in Gary Hauk and
Sally Wolff King eds., Where Courageous Inquiry Leads: Studies in
the Emerging Life of Emory University (Atlanta: Bookhouse, 2010), p.
255-256.
Supplementing Development, in Japanese translation, Development
Revisited, ed. Jun Nishikawa (Tokyo: Japan Society for International
Development, 2011); in Korean translation (Seoul: JASID, 2013).
"A Response," parallax 17.60 (July 2011), p. 98-104.
Love: A Conversation, with Serene Jones, Catherine Keller, Kwok Pui-lan,
and Stephen D. Moore; and Extempore Response to Susan
Abraham, Tat-siong Benny Liew and Mayra Rivera, in Stephen D.
Moore and Mayra Rivera eds., Planetary Loves: Spivak
Postcoloniality, and Theology (New York: Fordham University Press,
2011), p. 55-78, p. 136-148.
Reading De la grammatologie, in Sean Gaston and Ian Maclachlan, eds.,
Reading Derridas Of Grammatology (London: Continuum, 2011), p.
xxix-xxxix.
Gender in the Global Utopia, in Investidura com a doctora honoris causa
(Tarragona: Univ. Rovira I Virgili Press, 2011), p. 35-45.
Foremothers, in Susan Gubar, ed., True Confessions: Feminist Professors
Tell Stories Out of School, (New York: Norton, 2011), p. 111-122.
Comparative Literature/World Literature: A Discussion With Gayatri
Chakravorty Spivak and David Damrosch, Comparative Literature
Studies 48.4 (2011), p. 455-485.
"Biri Madun mu Dedi!," Dipnot Dergisi 6 (June - September 2011), p. 266271.
"The Author in Conversation," in Nandini Sen, ed. Mahasweta Devi: Critical
Perspectives (New Delhi: Pencraft, 2011), p. 35-48.
Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, in Baidik Bhattacharya and
Neelam Srivastava, eds., The Postcolonial Gramsci (New York:
Routledge, 2011), 221-232.
"Teaching Literature Today," Distinguished Lecture (Baroda: Balvant Parekh
Centre for General Semantics, 2011).
"General Strike," Tidal: Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy 1 (December
2011), p. 8-9; reprinted in Italian translation in Lettera Internazionale
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Gender and the Ethical: Mahasweta Devis Old Women, Delhi University,
August 26, 2004.
Permission to Celebrate the Fourth World, Keynote address, Conference
on Celebrating the Fourth World, University of Essex, September 1315, 2004.
Teaching from Above and Below: Humanities for the 21st Century,
Samuel Becker Lecture, University of Iowa, October 4, 2004.
Some Problems in Thinking Asia, Colloquium on History by the 21st
Century, Escuela Nacional de Antropologia e Historia (Mexico City),
October 6-7, 2004.
Scattered Speculations on the Question of Historiography, Iberoamerican
University (Mexico City), October 8, 2004.
Is Language Local?, Conference on Imagination and Globalization in a
Perspective of Culture and Power, Ewha Womens University (Seoul),
October 15, 2004.
Keynote, Conference on Dialogues Across Cultures, Monash University
(Melbourne), November 11-14, 2004.
The Politics of Mourning, Discussion with Eduardo Cadava and JeanMichel Rabat, Slought Foundation (Philadelphia), December 27,
2004.
The Future of the Humanities in a Fragmented World, panel discussion
with Toni Morrison and Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Annual Convention of
the Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, December 28, 2004.
A New Comparative Literature, in panel arranged by the American
Comparative Literature Association, New Institutional Forms of
Comparative Literature, Annual Convention of the Modern
Language Association, Philadelphia, December 29, 2004.
The Responsibility of Remembering Jacques Derrida, in New York
Remembers Derrida, New York University, January 21, 2004.
Using Levinas, Colloquium on Art and Answerability, Yale University,
January 22, 2005.
Why Planet?: Intellectual Autobiography, Colloquium on Cultural Theory,
Gramsci Institute (Trieste), February 18-20, 2005.
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Human Rights and the Other, Conversation with Davide Zoletto (editorial
board, aut aut), vicino/lontano Summer Festival, Udine (Italy), May
13, 2006.
Ethics with a Public Face, Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy,
University of Leicester, June 16, 2006; with extended revisions,
University of Virginia, October 17, 2006; Centre on Values and
Ethics, Carleton University (Ottawa), February 8, 2007.
Three Women's Texts and A Critique of Reproductive Heteronormativity,
Keynote Address, Conference on Dispersed Trajectories: Feminism,
Postcolonialism, and the Road Ahead, Wadham College, Oxford
University, June 19, 2006; Boston University, September 14, 2006;
with extended revisions, University of Virginia, October 19, 2006;
given as Three Women's Texts and A Critique, Joseph Warren
Beach Memorial Lecture, University of Minnesota, March 7, 2007;
Keynote, Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, June 17, 2010.
Law, Social Movements and the Subaltern - Articulating Postcolonial
Predicaments, Conversation with Upendra Baxi, Conference on
Towards a Theory of Law and Social Movements, Hauser Center for
Non-Profit Organizations, John F. Kennedy School of Government,
Harvard University, Bangalore, June 25, 2006.
Gramsci in the History of the Present, Inaugural Annual Lecture, Istituto
Gramsci Emilia-Romagna (Bologna, Italy), October 13, 2006; given
with extended revisions as The Ethical Implications of Gramsci's
Thoughts on Education, University of Virginia, October 18, 2006;
given with extensive revisions as The Ethical Implications of
Gramsci's Theory of Education, Centre on Values and Ethics,
Carleton University (Ottawa), February 9, 2007; given as Ethical
Implications of Gramsci's Educational Theory, School of Criticism
and Theory, Cornell University, July 24, 2007.
Interviewed by Rem Koolhaas as part of Post-Marathon, Serpentine Gallery,
London, October 14, 2006.
Three Ways of Looking at the Ethical, Page-Barbour Lectures, University
of Virginia, October 17-19, 2006.
The Ethics of Translation, Conference on The Translator as Mediator of
Cultures, University of Hartford, October 20-21, 2006; completely
revised version as keynote and concluding remarks at Conference on
Translation: Theory, Practice, Trope, University of Hawaii at Manoa,
January 22-23, 2007.
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Hope, Salon Series for Visual Culture, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London,
May 7, 2009.
They the People, Radical Philosophy Annual Conference, London, May 9,
2009.
Old Women, Goldsmiths College, London University, May 11, 2009;
expanded version as mini-seminar, University of California-Irvine,
May 26-27, 2009.
Can We Learn from the Subaltern?, Forum on Contemporary Theory,
Centre for Contemporary Theory and General Semantics, Kottayam,
India, June 27, 2009.
Marx and the Subaltern, Deutsches Haus, Columbia University,
September 17, 2009.
Respondent, Imperialism and Violence, Historical Materialism
Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, January 16, 2010.
"Femmes, langage, culture et politique l'heure de la mondialisation
postcoloniale," with Etienne Balibar, Le Merle Moqueur.
"Paroles subalternes. Politique culturelle du fminisme et du
postcolonialisme," with Erie Fassins, Ecole Normale Suprieure; Paris,
January 25, 2010.
Interviewed by Jean-Marie Jeannelle, Le Monde, Paris, January 26, 2010; by
Jacques Munier, France-Culture, Paris, January 27, 2010.
Situating Feminisms, Conference on Feminism, University of California at
Berkeley, Berkeley, California, February 26, 2010; fully revised
version presented as keynote in "Postfeminist Postmortems? Gender,
Sexualities and Multiple Modernities," Delhi University, February 14,
2011; revised version presented at PKU-Harvard Summer Institute
for World Literature and Tri-National Summer School, Peking
University, Beijing, China, July 5, 2011; further revised version
presented as Carol Breckenridge Memorial Lecture Series, The New
School, November 7, 2011; further fully revised version presented as
part of 2011-12 Colloquium on New Directions in Gender and
Sexuality Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, January 11,
2012; further fully revised version presented as keynote, 6th Annual
Feminist Theory Workshop, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke
University, March 17, 2012; House of Culture, Milan, May 13, 2012.
Re-Orientale: Reading Orientalism with Gayatri Spivak, Talk, CUNY
Graduate Center, March 2, 2010
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