I wasn’t a huge fan of Gayatri Spivak; I found some of her responses to be cold and political—“I can’t really comment on what goes on in the discipline of rhetoric” (2), “A domestication, a circumscription” (5), and “It is…
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Gayatri Spivak
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Spivak In an interview by Philip Sipiora and Janet Atwill, Spivak gives some insights to the aspect of Rhetoric and writing. She has also given some hints on Women’s writing and women’s teaching. When asked to define rhetoric , Spivak…
Commentary Week 10
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Tina Bell English 5001 23 April 2009 Commentary Week 10 “Rhetoric sees itself not as creating a balance between theory and practice, but rather as ‘inhabiting a kind of productive unease’” (1). Given Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s view of rhetoric, it…