Abstract
This contribution aims at outlining two different trajectories that can be traced throughout Spivak’s works, both of which take the concept of subalternity as their point of departure: the first analyses subalternity as a path to singularity and problematizes its consequences and impasses, while the second focuses on subaltern politics as a process of generalizability to be accomplished through self-synecdoche, namely through a metonymic process of de-singularization that only allows the subaltern to understand itself as a part of a collective whole (i.e. citizenship). The essay attempts to show the mutual complementarity of these two (seemingly) opposite moves in the direction of a possible strategy of desubalternization.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 774-792 |
Journal | Cultural Studies |
Volume | 30 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
- Subalternity
- singularity
- collectivity
- abstraction
- desubalternization