5 Quotes by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry.

When we seem to have won or lost in terms of certainties, we must, as literature teachers in the classroom, remember such warnings – let literature teach us that there are no certainties, that the process is open, and that it may be altogether salutary that it is so.

So capital is in fact borderless; that’s the problem. On the other hand capital has to keep borders alive in order for this kind of cross-border trade to happen. So therefore the idea of borderlessness has a performative contradiction within it which has to be kept alive.

If one really thinks about the body as such, there is no possible outline of the body as such.

Nationalism can only ever be a crucial political agenda against oppression. All longing to the contrary, it cannot provide the absolute guarantee of identity.