Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 15:40:01 -0500 From: "Terry Goldie" <tgoldie-AT-YorkU.CA> Subject: subalterns One of the comments about Spivak gave me a thought. Gramsci clearly uses "subaltern" in its "accurate" sense, as a subordinate officer who has some organizational power but no real control over anything. For Gramsci this is the "intellectual," such as the minor functionary in village politics, the foreman in a factory, the village priest, etc. On the other hand, everyone assumes that the Indian subaltern studies group and Spivak and the others who have responded to that group are referring to the bottom class, the peasants,etc. In "Can the Subaltern Speak?" the woman could be seen as, in class terms, close to Gramsci's image, but most discuss her as again at the bottom. Anybody who can explain all this? Or offer a reference which would provide same? Terry Goldie -- Terry Goldie English Department York University North York, Ontario Canada M3J 1P3 email tgoldie-AT-yorku.ca phone 416-604-3670 --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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