Subaltern Silence

Author : Kevin Olson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231560354
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subaltern Silence written by Kevin Olson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subordination did not simply fade away in the aftermath of colonialism. Instead, this illuminating book shows, a host of subtle new techniques have arisen that dominate vast categories of people by rendering them silent. Kevin Olson investigates how contemporary societies silence the subaltern: sometimes a literal silencing, often a metaphor for other ways of making people unheard. Such forms of silence make some people invisible, push others to the margins, and devalue the voices and actions of still others. Subaltern Silence traces the development of these techniques to the early years of European colonialism, focusing on Haiti’s revolution and postcolonial trajectory. Exploring rich archives from Europe and the postcolonial world, Olson critiques fundamental modern institutions and technologies, such as the public sphere, the free press, and even progressively minded democratic revolution, as sites of exclusion. With the emergence of postcoloniality, he argues, subordination has become increasingly abstract, virtual, and symbolic. Nonetheless, it lies at the heart of contemporary racial politics, divides Global South from Global North, and allocates privileges and burdens in ways that are often scarcely perceptible. Engaging deeply with the thought of Gayatri Spivak and Michel Foucault, Subaltern Silence offers a new genealogy of colonialism and postcoloniality that is both historically informed and theoretically rich.

Author : Ania Loomba
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415128099
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonialism-postcolonialism written by Ania Loomba and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Relatively New Field Of Post Colonial Studies Is Surrounded By A Great Deal Of Excitement, Confusion And Scepticism. This Volume Provides A Vital Introduction To The Historical Dimensions And Theretical Concepts Associated With Colonial And Postcolonial Discourse. Though The Study Does Not Attempt To Cover Every Major Thinker, Event Or Controversy, It Will Stimulate And Enable To Explore, And To Critique, Further Afield And Is Thus A Must For Any Student Needing To Come To Terms With This Crucial And Complex Area.

Author : Jane E. Evans
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042031778
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tactical Silence in the Novels of Malika Mokeddem written by Jane E. Evans and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2010 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Broaching Silence -- Tactics and Strategies in Algerian Letters -- Speaking of Silence -- Manipulating Silence -- Tactical Silence in Reading -- Textual Silences and the Reader's Tactics -- The Threat of Silence -- Bibliography -- Index.

Author : Paul Allatson
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042008045
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latino Dreams written by Paul Allatson and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A welcome addition to the fields of Latino and (trans-)American cultural and literary studies, Latino Dreams focuses on a selection of Latino narratives, published between the mid-1980s and the mid-1990s, that may be said to traffic in the U.S.A.'s attendant myths and governing cultural logics. The selection includes novels by authors who have received little academic attention--Abraham Rodriguez, Achy Obejas, and Benjamin Alire Sáenz--along with underattended texts from more renowned writers--Rosario Ferré, Coco Fusco, and Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Latino Dreams takes a transcultural approach in order to raise questions of subaltern subordination and domination, and the resistant capacities of cultural production. The analysis explores how the selected narratives deploy specific narrative tactics, and a range of literary and other cultural capital, in order to question and reform the U.S.A.'s imaginary coordinates. In these texts, moreover, national imperatives are complicated by recourse to feminist, queer, panethnic, postcolonial, or transnational agendas. Yet the analysis also recognizes instances in which the counter-narrative will is frustrated: the narratives may provide signs of the U.S.A.'s hegemonic resilience in the face of imaginary disavowal.

Author : Graham Riach
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351352024
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Analysis of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's Can the Subaltern Speak? written by Graham Riach and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Rosalind C. Morris
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231143851
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Can the Subaltern Speak? written by Rosalind C. Morris and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledgments p. ix Introduction Rosalind C. Morris p. 1 Part 1 Text "Can the Subaltern Speak?" revised edition, from the "History" chapter of Critique of Postcolonial Reason Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak p. 21 Part 2 Contexts and Trajectories Reflections on "Can the Subaltern Speak?": Subaltern Studies After Spivak Partha Chatterjee p. 81 Postcolonial Studies: Now That's History Ritu Birla p. 87 The Ethical Affirmation of Human Rights: Gayatri Spivak's Intervention Drucilla Cornell p. 100 Part 3 Speaking of (Not) Hearing Death and the Subaltern Rajeswari Sunder Rajan p. 117 Between Speaking and Dying: Some Imperatives in the Emergence of the Subaltern in the Context of U.S. Slavery Abdul Janmohamed p. 139 Subalterns at War: First World War Colonial Forces and the Politics of the Imperial War Graves Commission Michèle Barrett p. 156 Part 4 Contemporaneities and Possible Futures: (Not) Speaking and Hearing Biopower and the New International Division of Reproductive Labor Pheng Cheah p. 179 Moving from Subalternity: Indigenous Women in Guatemala and Mexico Jean Franco p. 213 Part 5 In Response In Response: Looking Back, Looking Forward Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak p. 227 Appendix: Can the Subaltern Speak? From Marxism and the Interpretation of History Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak p. 237 Bibliography p. 293 Contributors p. 309 Index p. 313.

Author : Moyez Vassanji
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1837930422
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gunny Sack written by Moyez Vassanji and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1990 Commonwealth First Novel Prize (Africa). The Gunny Sack follows the bizarre tale of an old and unremarkable bag and the life changing secrets within it. In exile from Tanzania, Salim Juma is given a gunny sack by his beloved, but strange, great-aunt. The bag takes him back to his childhood, when he was first mesmerised by the peculiar mementos inside. He soon begins to piece together the stories hidden within, only to discover the truth behind a fateful series of events that changed his family forever. The stories that follow stretch across four generations of Salim's family, tracing their footsteps and unravelling their loves, betrayals, and incredible misadventures. The Gunny Sack is an extraordinary chronicle into the experiences of Indian migrants in Africa as they struggled under changing power structures, from German invasions to British colonialism.

Author : Rosalind C. Morris
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231512856
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Can the Subaltern Speak? written by Rosalind C. Morris and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134886527
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Real and Imagined Women written by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Maguni Charan Behera
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811634246
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tribe-British Relations in India written by Maguni Charan Behera and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-11 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the colonial history of Tribe-British relations in India. It analyses colonial literature, as well as cultural and relational issues of pre-literate communities. It interrogates disciplinary epistemology through multidisciplinary engagement. It presents the temporal and spatial dimensions of tribal studies. The chapters critically examine colonial ideology and administration and civilization of tribes of India. Each paper introduces a unique context of Tribe-British interactions and provides an innovative approach, theoretical foundation, analytical tool and methodological insights in the emerging discipline of tribal studies. The book is of interest to researchers and scholars engaged in topics related to tribes.