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fpq-7574	McAuliffe, Jana	Ethical Openness in the Work of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak	2020	26	.pdf	application/pdf	11436	549	49	Keywords: complicity, ethics, political critique, racism, Spivak, US American feminism Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has argued that US American subjects considering social justice too easily fall into the trap of thinking “I am necessarily better, I am necessarily indispensable, I am necessarily the one to right wrongs, I am necessarily the end product for which history happened, and . . . I am not suggesting that Spivak is the only postcolonial thinker to take a critical stance toward postcolonialism from the perspective of thinking through postcoloniality; such a critical position might be one hallmark of responsible theory in general, and in the context of postcolonial theory, as the editors of the “Third McAuliffe – Ethical Openness in the Work of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Published by Scholarship@Western, 2020 7 of a world where the Global North and Global South are differentially affected by economics, arguing that this dynamic becomes more clear if ones sees “the ‘third world’ as a displacement of the old colonies, as colonialism proper displaces itself into neocolonialism. . . .	cache/fpq-7574.pdf	txt/fpq-7574.txt