Transcription of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Can the Subaltern Speak?
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Can the Subaltern Speak?
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Can the Subaltern Speak? An understanding of contemporary relations of power, and of the Western intellectual's role within them, re-quires an examination of the intersection of a theory of representation and the political economy of global capi-talism. A theory of representation points, on the one hand, to the domain of ideology, meaning, and subjec-tivity, and, on the other hand, to the domain of politics, the state, and the law. The original title of this paper was "Power, Desire, Interest."1 Indeed, whatever power these meditations command may have been earned by a politically interested refusal to push to the limit the found-ing presuppositions of my desires, as far as they are within my grasp.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Can the Subaltern Speak? An understanding of contemporary relations of power, and of the Western intellectual's role within them, re
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