Gayatri Spivak: The Trajectory of the Subaltern in My Work

Columbia University Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, is one of the leading literary theorists and cultural critics of our times. She takes issue with Western intellectuals' account of their inability to mediate the historical experience of the working classes and the underprivileged of society. Series: "Voices" [9/2004] [Humanities] [Show ID: 8840]

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Education

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• literature
• history
• working
• class
• society
• Gyatri
• Spivak

[GristleTit]

Your theoretico-hubristic antiindocentricity exposes what we always and already know: "reproductive heteronormativity [is] the broadest global institution".

[joetyer]

I propose this answer to the knotty linguistic bind that Derrida left us with. We simply get the firm who produced the StableTable to manufacture the word StableTable, and, by extension, all the other words that have ever been, are currently in use, or ever will be invented. Do YOU agree with this assertion, dude? If not, why not. If you DO agree with this assertion, don't type anything, and I'll take that to mean that you agree with me.

[salmajazz]

@BhavikaSicka1610 ur one of those copyright infringers (i.e. an intellectual robbers) who want to look smart using others' words. cite ur effing sources!

[AGNISHIKHA100]

i appreciate her standpoints about Colonialism. But my question is, why she adopts her White husband's title 'Spivak'??

Such a confusion!

[Skylishque]

a longstanding dream of mine starting to be realized (wow)!

[supersamzman1]

@ewanthesis Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[gen6k]

so basically theres weaks, and strongs and we dont listen to retarded bums. also women have inferior neurology, or at least nonattentive neurology or maybe more retentive by being predominant and subtle or how about its true that its a complex situation but we must listen to the retarded bum or the bimbo.

[Auz18]

@Rut267

ompa lompa dip-perdi-do I think your ignorant do-pa-di do

[ThewildRageofGordon]

Sounds like a racist concept designed to privilege people seen by the logic of European/American institutions to be distant. These kinds of materialist terms are bullshit. Only if subaltern is determined by alienation at level of being (outside political geographic, etc, criteria) can it be valid. This however is impossible (yet it is better then the colonial violence of the disgusting Enlightenment discourse: a repeat of Inquisition).

[BhavikaSicka1610]

I really admire her Derridean deconstruction, and her concern for the way in which postcolonial studies ironically re inscribe, co-opt and rehearse neocolonial imperatives of political domination, economic exploitation and cultural erasure (the very imperatives they are trying to dismantle). BUT. I'm from Calcutta, and I can tell you for one that her critics are correct when they say that Spivak wouldn't even recognize a subaltern if she saw one. The question then is: Can the subaltern spivak?

[charvesa]

It is told that Napolean's hemorrhoids were his undoing at battle.

How unfair.

Did Amazons not battle when their menstrual cycles kicked in? War would be so the different game in a more maternalistic society.

or maybe not

[Rut267]

she looks like a ompa lompa.