Can the Subaltern Speak?: Reflections on the History of an IdeaRosalind C. Morris Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's original essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?" transformed the analysis of colonialism through an eloquent and uncompromising argument that affirmed the contemporary relevance of Marxism while using deconstructionist methods to explore the international division of labor and capitalism's "worlding" of the world. Spivak's essay hones in on the historical and ideological factors that obstruct the possibility of being heard for those who inhabit the periphery. It is a probing interrogation of what it means to have political subjectivity, to be able to access the state, and to suffer the burden of difference in a capitalist system that promises equality yet withholds it at every turn. |
Contents
Can the Subaltern Speak? revised edition | 21 |
Death and the Subaltern | 117 |
Some Imperatives in the Emergence | 139 |
Part four | 177 |
In Response | 227 |
aPPendix Can the Subaltern Speak? | 237 |
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Contributors 309 | 309 |
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Can the Subaltern Speak?: Reflections on the History of an Idea Rosalind C. Morris Limited preview - 2010 |
Can the Subaltern Speak?: Reflections on the History of an Idea Rosalind Morris Limited preview - 2010 |