“Can the Subaltern Speak” Response Spivak’s article‚ while difficult to get through‚ brings up many interesting points. She ultimately comes to the conclusion that the subaltern cannot speak. Yet in coming to that conclusion she explains reasons why they cannot. Early into the essay‚ Spivak asks the question‚ “Are those who act and struggle mute‚ as opposed to those who act and speak?” (70). She asks this question in response to Deleuze’s pronouncement that‚ “‘[a] theory is like a box of tools…
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put in the second position below the man. She is always kept silent. Identifying this issue‚ Indian critic and feminist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak asks— can the subaltern speak? in her essay ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’. To answer this question‚ she says: “There is no space from which the sexed subaltern subject can speak . . . The subaltern cannot speak” (Spivak 103-104). The reason‚ Spivak shows‚ is that Indian woman is always given a label of Sati or good wife. “Sati as a woman’s proper name is in
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Chapter 5 Case Analysis IV: A Cross-Tradition Examination—Philosophical Concern with Truth in Classical Daoism It is philosophically interesting and significant to explore the philosophical concern with truth from a vantage point that crosses traditions‚ instead of looking at it exclusively within one single philosophical tradition (i.e.‚ the Western philosophical tradition). Such exploration can not only enhance our understanding of the nature‚ scope and characteristics of the philosophical
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Shadows of Forgotten Subalterns: Evolving New Identity in Arundhati Roy’s TheGodofSmallThings Dr. Archana Abstract Arundhati Roy’s‚ novel removes a complicatedhistorical heritage observed with restraints and indignations. Its local fictional world extends into a universal one with its sensitive depiction of perennial conflicts and offers suitable fodder for its international readers. It has as it backdrops a social construction characterized by compulsions of a pervasive caste system.The oppressive
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Second Sex says‚ “…she is simply what men decree;… she is the incidental‚ the inessential as opposed to the essential.” (Beauvoir 16) In the Indian context‚ women as gendered subalterns have a very limited role to play within the society. They are mere objects of desire to men. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in her essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?”‚ originally published in Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg’s Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture (1988) says‚ “As object of colonialist historiography and
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Representations A mere reflection of what we want to see. Mere reflections of our memories. Or of us. I think representations in this poem‚ in terms of my perspective are a mere reflection of ourselves or what we want to think. The imagery is shown by our “representations”. In the poem the speaker defines representations as “things residing inside the brain.” (Sanes). I guess this kind of relates to my definition because representations are what we see‚ from our perspective. What we think
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A Subaltern Study: Subaltern is a word that is used to denote some one with low ranking in a social political and other hierarchy. It also used to describe some one who has been marginalized or oppressed. This term was first adopted by Antonio Gramsci who was an Italian Marxist. He used the term subaltern to refer the groups who are outside the established structure of political representation. It may also be emphasized that Bonaventura de Sousa Santos (2002) used the term subaltern cosmopolitan
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Spivak and Kincaid: An Analysis of the Reproductive Rights of Subaltern Colonizers utilize unethical reproduction as a form of domination against women-- and in some cases of resistance‚ many women may refuse to bear children. Xuela‚ the protagonist of Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother is the representation of the colonized in the act of rebellion against their reproduction. Although she refuses to have children‚ even after pregnancy-- she permeates self-love for her own body
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The Work of Representation Stuart Hall Summarize by Jesse Tseng 1 Representation‚ meaning and language At first we have to know that： Representation is an essential part of the process by which meaning is produced and exchanged between members of a culture. It does involve the use of language‚ of signs and images which stand for or represent things. And surly it is not a simple or straightforward process. How this article exploring the concept of representation connect meaning and language to
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Array Representation A complete binary tree has a simple array representation. Suppose we number the nodes from left to right‚ beginning at the top and ending at the bottom. Then we can store the various data items in the corresponding elements of an array. For example can be represented by the array This in fact corresponds to the level order enumeration of the tree. Note that we only use an initial segment of the array. Provided the array is long enough‚ and we know the number of
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