Segregation at All Costs: Bull Connor and the Civil Rights Movement

40 years of the Man Booker Prize

Man Booker Prize 2012

Do you know about the Man Booker Prize? Who was the Indian author on this year's shortlist?

THE SHORT LIST - so who won?
Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists
Deborah Levy, Swimming Home
Hilary Mantel, Bring up the Bodies
Alison Moore, The Lighthouse
Will Self, Umbrella
Jeet Thayil, Narcopolis

Columbia Professor Gayatri Spivak on An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization

 
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor at Columbia University and a trainer of elementary school teachers in West Bengal.
 Areas of Interest :

19th- and 20th-century literature; Marxism; feminism; deconstruction; poststructuralism; globalization

Biography:

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor, the highest honor given to a handful of professors across the university, and a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.  B.A. English (First Class Honors), Presidency College, Calcutta, 1959.  Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Cornell University, 1967. D. Litt, University of Toronto, 1999; D. Litt, Univeristy of London, 2003; D. Hum, Oberlin College, 2008. D. Honoris Causa, Universitat Roveri I Virgili,  2011, D. Honoris Causa, Rabindra Bharati, 2012. Kyoto Prize in Thought and Ethics, 2012.

Essentialism explained - contrasted with poststucturalism

How to write good essays: the art of "PEELING"