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Can The Subaltern Speak? : Postkolonialität Und Subalterne Artikulation (2008)

by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak(Favorite Author)

4.07 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

3851325060 (ISBN13: 9783851325065)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Turia + Kant

review 1: only problem with it is how dense it is, which in a way sort of retains traces of that western subjectivity we are trying to de-center. The habitual behaviors one must develop in order to be a scholar, the levels of education one must be subjected to, these conditions make spivak readable more or less. This schematic also seems to be a western one. It represents (posturing-faux) itself as transparent truth, but in order to understand it you have to ideologically come to grips with the totalizing logic of the western subject. Also, apparently the subaltern can't speak.
review 2: Can the subaltern speak? is a wonderful essay that explores the question of subject constitution and object formation in the postcolonial world. The post-colonialist wants to rid the int... moreermediaries to allow those placed in the position of the Other the moment to speak but how will the Other speak when all experience is already constituted through representations? Language is filled with power and so authenticity and transparency are impossible. There must be an interpretation of Other's cultures although it is a messy process. Dashabi criticizes her work for being politically suicidal and untenable, nevertheless Spivak has given us the opportunity to understand the process of subject constitution and object formation is much more complicated in the postcolonial world. less

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