Postcolonial Interventions: Gayatri Spivak, Three Wise Men and the Native Informant

Devadas, Vijay; Nicholls, Brett

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“…As Spivak states in an interview, '"the subaltern cannot speak" means that even when the subaltern makes an effort to the death to speak, she is not able to be heard" (MacLean & Donna, 2005, p. 292). Devadas and Nicholls (2002) also note that: the "cannot speak" in "the subaltern cannot speak" is gesturing to the impossibility of speech to an audience that refuses to hear and respond to the crying out. It is this incomplete transaction that suppresses the subaltern.…”

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The Erasure Of A Mad And An Infamous Mother In Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea

Baig

2014

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The character of Bertha Mason has been stereotyped as a “madwoman in the attic” in Charlotte Bronte’s novel “Jane Eyre (1847).” Jean Rhys in her novel “Wide Sargasso Sea (1966),” has tried to re-inscribe her character as Antoinette by analyzing how the imperialist and patriarchal forces led a woman from the wide world of Sargasso Sea to the attic of Thornfield Hall England. My contention to this corrective process of rewriting as rerighting is that, in an effort to authenticate Antoinette’s character, this writing has othered Annette, Antoinette’s mother, and has, in return, created another madwoman who has been left unattended in the plot that should have written back to the canon instead of furthering canonical images.

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Section: Annette's Physical Charms and Mr Mason's Ulterior Motivesmentioning

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The Erasure Of A Mad And An Infamous Mother In Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea

Baig

2014

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“…"[I]t is not about giving voice but is concerned with constituting, working for, representing for and with, the marginalized group." 21 Hence, the Western approach to the subaltern is either to speak for or to silently let them speak for themselves. Both strategies silence the subaltern because they ignore the positional relations of the dominant to the subaltern.…”

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“Can the Subaltern Be Heard?”: Political Theory, Translation, Representation, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Maggio

2007

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political

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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?” questions the notion of the colonial (and Western) “subject” and provides an example of the limits of the ability of Western discourse, even postcolonial discourse, to interact with disparate cultures. This article suggests that these limits can be (partially) overcome. Where much commentary on Spivak focuses on her reading of Marx through the prism of Derrida, and on her contention that the “native informant” is simultaneously created and destroyed, I contends that Spivak's terms of engagement always imply a liberal-independent subject that is actively speaking. Moreover, given the limits of understanding implied by Spivak's essay, I advocate a reading of culture(s) based on the assumption that all actions offer a communicative role, and that one can understand cultures by translating the various conducts of their culture. On this basis I argue that the title of Spivak's essay might be more accurately stated as “Can the Subaltern Be Heard?”

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Zwischen Schweigen und Sprechen

Nenadovic

2023

Postcolonial Writings

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Seit MeToo können Frauen öffentlich ihre erlebte sexualisierte Gewalt thematisieren - so zumindest eine häufig geteilte Annahme. Dagegen zeigt Ana Nenadovic auf, dass das Sprechen darüber keineswegs frei, sondern weiterhin tabuisiert ist. Aus intersektional-feministischer und post- sowie dekolonialer Perspektive erforscht sie aktuelle Romane aus Mexiko, Brasilien und Südafrika, um die tragende, aber in der Textstruktur verborgene Stimme der vergewaltigten Informantin zu enthüllen. Ihre Analysen zeigen Interaktionen zwischen Schweigen und Sprechen auf und plädieren für eine kritische Lektüre von Repräsentationen sexualisierter Gewalt und Trauma.

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Postcolonial Interventions: Gayatri Spivak, Three Wise Men and the Native Informant

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The Erasure Of A Mad And An Infamous Mother In Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea

The Erasure Of A Mad And An Infamous Mother In Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea

“Can the Subaltern Be Heard?”: Political Theory, Translation, Representation, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

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