Talk:Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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Isn't the right word 'Deconstructivist' rather than 'Deconstructive?---KRS 17:42, 2 Sep 2003 (UTC)
No. I work in literary studies and philosophy. I've never heard anyone in the field say "deconstructivist." There's some comment on this terminological question in Talk:Deconstruction, which I disagree with, and which appears to come from deconstruction-hostile people outside the field. "Deconstructive" is the adjectival form. The "-ism" form is, in my experience, rarely used except by confused journalists.
Rbellin 21:06, 2 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Spivak herself frequently says "deconstructivist"! I think she does it on purpose, to annoy people working in literary studies and philosophy. But pretty much nobody else in the field uses that term; I don't believe Derrida ever did, for instance. - Poetix
[edit] suicide bombing
Taking up half the article with out of context quotes from her speech at Leeds, where she comments on 9/11, seems like a BLP violation. She has three or four books out, as well as a translation of probably the best known work by Derrida, yet the largest paragraph here is about a speech she gave in 2002? And there's nothing at all about her most well-known piece. And this speech was published in boundary 2 (in 2004); if we're going to cite it we should cite it directly and not take her quotes out of context to make her look like some kind of terrorist. Quoting the Jerusalem post op-ed about this is extremely tendentious at best. csloat 22:32, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
