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“... would be rather like calling oneself Fatso, or confessing to a furtive interest in coprophilia. Gayatri Spivak remarks with some justification in this book that a good deal of US post-colonial theory is ‘bogus’, but this gesture is de rigueur when it comes to one post-colonial critic writing about the rest. Besides, for a ‘Third World’ theorist ...”

“... at jargon, Dat also quotes the jargon of his real-life peers: We have so much to discuss! For, as Gayatri ChakravortySpivak has said so well, ‘The rememoration of the “present” as space is the possibility of the utopian imperative of no-(particular)-place, the metropolitan project that can supplement the ...”

“... of the day. It also gave birth to a cluster of international superstars – Jacques Derrida, Gayatri ChakravortySpivak, Fredric Jameson, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Umberto Eco – who were sometimes to be found lecturing in Sicily or Slovenia when they should have been teaching a class in New Jersey. At once ...”

“... the editors are kind to their own – professors of literature. Q.D. Leavis, Carolyn Heilbrun and Gayatri ChakravortySpivak have whole entries to themselves and Margaret Doody’s Aristotle Detective is singled out for honourable mention in the entry on Detective Fiction. Luce Irigaray is in, but not Cecil Woodham ...”

“... correct my English, Ashok. There’s no T in pizza. Look at the box.’ Some two decades ago, Gayatri ChakravortySpivak wrote a celebrated essay, ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’ At the time, a folklorist is said to have responded: ‘More importantly, can the bourgeois listen?’ We can’t hear Balram Halwai’s ...”