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Can the Subaltern Speak?An Essay by Gayatri Spivak
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+Subaltern
Subaltern is that identity that has no possibility at social mobility
No possibility to speak
No possibility to be heard
Intransability of the Subaltern’s structural position
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Photograph by Fazal Sheikh. Ajoh Achot and Achol Manyen, Sudanese refugee camp. Lokichoggio, Kenya, 1992.
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+Representation
Who is represented as the Subject?
Who is representable as the Subject?
Who is chosen to represent the Subaltern?
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+How is Speaking Subject being Produced?Savior -whit
e man
Injurer -brown
man
Injured -brown wo
man
Brown woman oppressed as structural necessity
Saving brown woman is also a structural necessity
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+Woman as a Subject
Woman remains an unthinkable figure that needs saving, protection, an assigned identity, a set of limits, rules.
Where do the rules/norms/ideas of identity come from?
How are the rules, norms, identities POLICED?
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+Subaltern Identity
Accepts wretchedness as normality
Millennial cognitive damage done to subaltern
Valid institutional background can help subaltern speak
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+Agency
Agency is the CAPABILITY or POWER to affect a desired change.
Agency is NOT the same as Rights, Freedoms, Privileges, Advantages, Abilities.
Agency is more specific to time, place, socio-economic context.
Agency is increasingly perceived as a key goal of development.
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+New Subaltern Identity
Subaltern becoming permeable because of desire to “do good” or “do something”
Allow subaltern to speak and be heard
A general will to create exploitation into the subaltern, too, is present