Image by Ewan-M under Creative Commons. We've all heard it. "Can you tell me where Lie-sester Square is?". English place names can be a bit of a challenge to the outsider. Even longtime Londoners ...
Does it matter how you pronounce W.E.B Du Bois? It does for scholar and literary critic Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Spivak, author of "Can the Subaltern Speak" has kicked up a row-- after a video clip ...
Noted postcolonial scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s admonition of a young scholar for mispronouncing African-American sociologist WEB Du Bois’s name at a recent lecture has caused a brouhaha in ...