Half-Sick of Shadows
Figure and ground in Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s imagination of the subaltern
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7094829 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Asha Varadharajan (Queen's University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 730-753 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-2386 • E-ISSN: 1466-4348 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09502386.2016.1168110 |
| OpenAlex | W2344589872 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 12 |
This essay moves the category of the subaltern out of the exclusive domain of colonial historiography and resituates it in the context of contemporaneity. Taking my cue from Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s insistence on the dream of postcoloniality in the realm of the global, I examine two ‘empirical anomalies’ that redefine subaltern insurgency, cultivate democratic reflexes, and defeat the expectations of their moment and milieu. Vivek Chibber’s Postcolonial theory and the specter of capital serves as a framing device to elicit the still-persuasive dimensions of Spivak’s landmark essay for our historical moment. While I remain unpersuaded by both his premises and his conclusions, his argument does throw Spivak’s interventions in the project of Subaltern Studies into relief. My method throughout, in the manner of Spivak and Paul de Man, is one of interruption and undoing; my aim is to delineate what Spivak describes as ‘the resistance fitting our time
Aesthetics · Dialectic · Epistemology · Historiography · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Realm · Sociology · Subaltern · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
Subalternity and Representation
Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
A Conversation with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Touched by Deconstruction
Not Really a Properly Intellectual Response
Postcolonial theory and the specter of capital
Use and Abuse of Human Rights
A Moral Dilemma
Learning from de Man
Subalternists Scrutinized - Vivek Chibber, Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital (London/New york, Verso, 2013)
An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2023 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |