The Subaltern

Author : Rosalind C. Morris
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231512855

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Can the Subaltern Speak? by Rosalind C. Morris Pdf

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. Since its publication, "Can the Subaltern Speak?" has been cited, invoked, imitated, and critiqued. In these phenomenal essays, eight scholars take stock of the effects and response to Spivak's work. They begin by contextualizing the piece within the development of subaltern and postcolonial studies and the quest for human rights. Then, through the lens of Spivak's essay, they rethink historical problems of subalternity, voicing, and death. A final section situates "Can the Subaltern Speak?" within contemporary issues, particularly new international divisions of labor and the politics of silence among indigenous women of Guatemala and Mexico. In an afterword, Spivak herself considers her essay's past interpretations and future incarnations and the questions and histories that remain secreted in the original and revised versions of "Can the Subaltern Speak?" both of which are reprinted in this book.

Author : Graham Riach
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351350235

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An Analysis of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's Can the Subaltern Speak? by Graham Riach Pdf

A critical analysis of Spivak's classic 1988 postcolonial studies essay, in which she argues that a core problem for the poorest and most marginalized in society (the subalterns) is that they have no platform to express their concerns and no voice to affect policy debates or demand a fairer share of society’s goods. A key theme of Gayatri Spivak's work is agency: the ability of the individual to make their own decisions. While Spivak's main aim is to consider ways in which "subalterns" – her term for the indigenous dispossessed in colonial societies – were able to achieve agency, this paper concentrates specifically on describing the ways in which western scholars inadvertently reproduce hegemonic structures in their work. Spivak is herself a scholar, and she remains acutely aware of the difficulty and dangers of presuming to "speak" for the subalterns she writes about. As such, her work can be seen as predominantly a delicate exercise in the critical thinking skill of interpretation; she looks in detail at issues of meaning, specifically at the real meaning of the available evidence, and her paper is an attempt not only to highlight problems of definition, but to clarify them. What makes this one of the key works of interpretation in the Macat library is, of course, the underlying significance of this work. Interpretation, in this case, is a matter of the difference between allowing subalterns to speak for themselves, and of imposing a mode of "speaking" on them that – however well-intentioned – can be as damaging in the postcolonial world as the agency-stifling political structures of the colonial world itself. By clearing away the detritus of scholarly attempts at interpretation, Spivak takes a stand against a specifically intellectual form of oppression and marginalization.

Author : George Robert Gleig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000679571

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The Subaltern by George Robert Gleig Pdf

Author : Radhika Gajjala
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780739118542

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Cyberculture and the Subaltern by Radhika Gajjala Pdf

Cyberculture and the Subaltern: Weavings of the Virtual and Real, edited by Radhika Gajjala, maps how voice and silence shape online space in relation to offline actualities. Thus, it weaves the virtual and real in relation to so-called old and new technologies using globalization and technology as the frame for examination. Implicit in this investigation is the question of how offline actualities and online cultures are in turn shaped by online hierarchies, as well as different kinds of local access to global contexts. This book reveals the logic of particular global-local directions that emerge within digital, transnational capital and labor flows. To this end, the contributors to this volume examine various sites and intersections through critical lenses enabled by conversations and writings in subaltern studies, affect theory, postcolonial feminist theory, critical cultural studies, communication studies, critical development studies, and science and technology studies. Contexts explored in this collection include microfinance online, handloom contexts from India and Africa in relation to development discourse, new technologies, and virtual world marketing. Through actual auto-ethnographic engagement, Cyberculture and the Subaltern reveals the interdependence of the economic, political, cultural, and social in the production of the subaltern online.

Author : Vinayak Chaturvedi
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781844676378

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Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial by Vinayak Chaturvedi Pdf

Inspired by Antonio Gramsci’s writings on the history of subaltern classes, the authors in Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial sought to contest the elite histories of Indian nationalists by adopting the paradigm of ‘history from below’. Later on, the project shifted from its social history origins by drawing upon an eclectic group of thinkers that included Edward Said, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida. This book provides a comprehensive balance sheet of the project and its developments, including Ranajit Guha’s original subaltern studies manifesto, Partha Chatterjee, Dipesh Chakrabarty and Gayatri Spivak.

Author : Rosalind Morris
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231143844

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Can the Subaltern Speak? by Rosalind Morris Pdf

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. Spivak's eloquent and uncompromising arguments engaged with more than just power, politics, and the postcolonial. They confronted the methods of deconstruction, the contemporary relevance of Marxism, the international division of labor, and capitalism's worlding of the world, calling attention to the historical and ideological factors that efface the possibility of being heard. Since the publication of Spivak's essay, the work has been revered, reviled, misread, and misappropriated. It has been cited, invoked, imitated, and critiqued. In these phenomenal essays, eight scholars take stock of this response. They begin by contextualizing the piece within the development of subaltern and postcolonial studies and the quest for human rights, and then they think with Spivak's essay about historical problems of subalternity, voicing, and death. A final section situates Spivak's work in the contemporary world, particularly through readings of new international divisions of labor and the politics of silence among indigenous women of Guatemala and Mexico. In an afterword, Spivak herself looks at the interpretations of her essay and its future incarnations, while specifying some of the questions and histories that remain secreted in the original and revised versions of Can the Subaltern Speak?& mdash;both of which are reprinted in this book.

Author : George Robert Gleig,John Trueheart (pseud.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
ISBN : NYPL:33433067303614

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The Subaltern's Log-book by George Robert Gleig,John Trueheart (pseud.) Pdf

Author : Antonio Gramsci
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231548861

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Subaltern Social Groups by Antonio Gramsci Pdf

Antonio Gramsci is widely celebrated as the most original political thinker in Western Marxism. Among the most central aspects of his enduring intellectual legacy is the concept of subalternity. Developed in the work of scholars such as Gayatri Spivak and Ranajit Guha, subalternity has been extraordinarily influential across fields of inquiry stretching from cultural studies, literary theory, and postcolonial criticism to anthropology, sociology, criminology, and disability studies. Almost every author whose work touches upon subalterns alludes to Gramsci’s formulation of the concept. Yet Gramsci’s original writings on the topic have not yet appeared in full in English. Among his prison notebooks, Gramsci devoted a single notebook to the theme of subaltern social groups. Notebook 25, which he entitled “On the Margins of History (History of Subaltern Social Groups),” contains a series of observations on subaltern groups from ancient Rome and medieval communes to the period after the Italian Risorgimento, in addition to discussions of the state, intellectuals, the methodological criteria of historical analysis, and reflections on utopias and philosophical novels. This volume presents the first complete translation of Gramsci’s notes on the topic. In addition to a comprehensive translation of Notebook 25 along with Gramsci’s first draft and related notes on subaltern groups, it includes a critical apparatus that clarifies Gramsci’s history, culture, and sources and contextualizes these ideas against his earlier writings and letters. Subaltern Social Groups is an indispensable account of the development of one of the crucial concepts in twentieth-century thought.

Author : Captain George Wood
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781908902719

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The Subaltern Officer. — A Narrative by Captain George Wood Pdf

George Foot started his military career in the Peninsula as a Lieutenant in the 82nd Foot, Prince of Wales’s Volunteers, having being involved in the initial struggles around Lisbon at Roliça and Vimiero in 1808, before the general action at Talavera in 1809. Interestingly, he transferred to the 2nd Battalion of Detachments for the rest of the War before being seriously wounded at the battle of the Pyrenees. His narrative is enlivened with an eye for detail both in the battles he fought in and the towns and villages that he and his foot-sore comrades tramped through.

Author : George Robert Gleig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600068707

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The subaltern [by G.R. Gleig]. Library ed by George Robert Gleig Pdf

Author : George Robert Gleig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Peninsular War, 1807-1814
ISBN : NLS:V000582879

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The Subaltern. Originally Published in Blackwood's Magazine by George Robert Gleig Pdf

Author : Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Publisher : Walther Konig Verlag
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3960989008

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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' 1985, Estefania Peñafiel Loaiza Two Works Series by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Pdf

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's landmark essay in decolonial thought is animated for a new generation with art by Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza In 1985, Indian scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (born 1942) published what would become a landmark essay in the academic study of colonialism. "Can the Subaltern Speak?" interrogates the obstructions that prevent certain subjects from being heard and how this state-enforced silence maintains the degradation of those at the peripheries of society. Over three decades later, Spivak's piece is perhaps even more compelling in its affirmation of Marxism's relevance to contemporary decolonial thought. This volume revives Spivak's text for yet another generation of thinkers, placed in dialogue with artwork by Ecuadorian artist Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza (born 1978). Loaiza's preoccupation with questions of occlusion and the need for and absence of image makes for an art series that shares a clear kinship with Spivak's line of reasoning. Loaiza's visual vocabulary echoes and refracts the central ideas put forth by Spivak in a compelling new interpretation of this essential text.

Author : Ranajit Guha,Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0195052897

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Selected Subaltern Studies by Ranajit Guha,Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Pdf

These ten essays culled from the five volumes of 'Subaltern Studies' aim to 'promote a systematic and informed discussion of subaltern themes in the field of South Asian studies, and thus help to rectify the elitist bias characteristic of much reserach and academic work in this particular area.'

Author : Tariq Jazeel,Stephen Legg
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820354590

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Subaltern Geographies by Tariq Jazeel,Stephen Legg Pdf

Subaltern Geographies is the first book-length discussion addressing the relationship between the historical innovations of subaltern studies and the critical intellectual practices and methodologies of cultural, urban, historical, and political geography. This edited volume explores this relationship by attempting to think critically about space and spatial categorizations. Editors Tariq Jazeel and Stephen Legg ask, What methodological-philosophical potential does a rigorously geographical engagement with the concept of subalternity pose for geographical thought, whether in historical or contemporary contexts? And what types of craft are necessary for us to seek out subaltern perspectives both from the past and in the present? In so doing, Subaltern Geographies engages with the implications for and impact on disciplinary geographical thought of subaltern studies scholarship, as well as the potential for such thought. In the process, it probes new spatial ideas and forms of learning in an attempt to bypass the spatial categorizations of methodological nationalism and Eurocentrism.

Author : T. Deivasigamani
Publisher : MJP Publisher
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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SUBALTERN DISCOURSES by T. Deivasigamani Pdf

UNIT I Introduction, UNIT II Dalit Literature, UNIT III Tribal Literature, UNIT IV African American Literature, UNIT V Aboriginal or Indigenous Literature, UNIT VI Comparison and Similarities of Dalit and African Literatures, UNIT VII Comparison and Similarities of Tribal and Aboriginal Literature.