ARTH 369 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Subaltern (Postcolonialism), Gilles Deleuze
29 Oct 2018
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Week 8: british colonial tradition, orientalist fiction of british india. Can the subaltern speak? by gayatri chakravorty spivak. One of the most in uential academic contributions to postcolonial feminist studies. Spivak criticizes the construction of a universal eurocentric sovereign subject by the two canonical. French poststructuralist theorist michel foucault and gilles deleuze. The abolition of sati in india by the colonial british empire in 1829 and constructed misrepresentation built around it as an instrument for essential imperialistic intervention as a civilizing mission. The complete absence of historical representation (within revisionist history) Term subaltern captures a concept originally introduced by antonio gramsci, italian marxist philosopher (1891-1937), referring to subordinate social groups or classes. Spivak stresses that while documenting subaltern subjects, the privileges of the postcolonial intellectuals are actually their loss. Equivocation error (fallacy): the problematic of using one word in two different sense in the construction of an argument, example: Bat is used to hit a ball (premise)
