Representation's Coup
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19003272 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Lloyd (0000-0002-0325-2006, University of Southern California, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-29 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Interventions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-801X • E-ISSN: 1469-929X |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1369801x.2012.726444 |
| OpenAlex | W2071896103 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 22 |
Some 25 years after its publication, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's “Can the Subaltern Speak?” continues to cause an ethical consternation not fully explicable by its apparent political claims. This article explores the grounds for that effect by elaborating the philosophical system of representation that the original essay only partially addresses in its reading of Marx's writings. It argues for the necessity of a critical understanding of the role of the intellectual as the agent of a system of representation that dialectically produces the subaltern. Without such a critical genealogy of the function of the intellectual as embedded within the system of representation, the subaltern becomes the object of melancholy postcolonial identifications and ethical distress. The essay concludes with a re-reading of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea as a novel that stages the crisis and failure of colonial identifications
Art · Colonialism · Critical reading · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Object (grammar) · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Reading (process) · Representation (politics) · Sargasso sea · Sociology · Subaltern · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Psychology
Bread and Circuses
Empire on Display
Considerations on representative government.
Provincializing Europe
Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice
Culture and the State
An Other Tongue
Kant's Examples
Kant's Examples
Capital
Selected Subaltern studies
The Accumulation of Capital
Zur Kantforschung der Gegenwart
Race Under Representation
The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital
Scattered speculations on the subaltern and the popular
Necroidealism, or the Subaltern's Sacrificial Death
Modernity's edge
Reflections
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason
Well Grubbed, Old Mole
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2024 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |