Spivak’s postcolonial work lost standing among deconstructionist peers

Evidence

Although Spivak initially became known as the translator of Derrida and an advocate of deconstruction, and although she remains one of the few intellectuals actually carrying out the suggestions made by the post-Enlightenment ethical movement associated with Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas, scholars who have engaged in high ethical debates in the recent past seem to have ignored her contributions. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 70

Categorization

• XREF: Spivak ‘lost ground within the deconstructive establishment’ even as she gained Third World/ethnic-studies audiences — a reception asymmetry relevant to identity politics stances. — connects to: Postcolonial scholars are marginalized from high deconstructionist ethics discourse — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 70; Postcolonial theory is attacked for being both too homogenizing and not homogenizing enough

Broader Connections

• Postcolonial theory is attacked for being both too homogenizing and not homogenizing enough #qualifies (0.72)