Can the subaltern speak? (Record no. 394550)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781912127504
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 305.4201
Item number R4C2
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Personal name Riach, Graham K.
9 (RLIN) 361622
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Title Can the subaltern speak?
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Routledge
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2017
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 96 p.
440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE
Title Macat library critical thinking series
9 (RLIN) 361489
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. 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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>https://www.routledge.com/Can-the-Subaltern-Speak/Riach/p/book/9781912127504
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Postcolonialism
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Speaking
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Criticism - Critical thinking skills
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Non-fiction Ahmedabad Ahmedabad General Stacks 21/03/2018 6 418.70 3 1 305.4201 R4C2 196565 04/02/2020 16/11/2019 558.27 21/03/2018 Book

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