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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Can the Subaltern Speak? An understanding of contemporary relations of power, and of the Western intellectual's role within them, requires an examination of the intersection of a theory of representation and the political economy of global capitalism.Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's 1988 essay Can the Subaltern Speak? introduced questions of gender and sexual difference into analyses of representation and offering a profound critique of both subaltern history and radical Western philosophy.Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak It should not be possible to read nineteenth-century British literature without remembering that imperialism, understood as England's social mission, was a crucial part of the cultural representation of England to the English.
Can the subaltern speak?. (Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak) Home. WorldCat Home About WorldCat Help. Search. Search for Library Items Search for Lists Search for Contacts Search for a Library. Create lists, bibliographies and reviews: or Search WorldCat. Find items in libraries near you.Can the subaltern Speak? - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Introduction Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic. She is a University Professor at the Columbia University and a founding member of the establishment's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Considered one of the most.
She addresses this problem in one of her most influential essays, Can the Subaltern Speak?. The answer, according to Spivak, is no. As soon as the subaltern tries to acquire a voice, they must move into the dominant discourse to be understood.
