Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 16:37:06 -0500 (CDT)
From: Deepa Reddy <deepa-AT-owlnet.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: subalternation



Could you provide a reference on Lisa Lowe?  I find this very interesting.
Deepa


On Thu, 25 Jul 1996 piers-AT-kuc01.kuniv.edu.kw wrote:

> Satish mentions the "dalit" and thinks of her "in a gramscian kind of way" as
> counterposed to elite postcolonials . . . . 
> 
> Perhaps the gramscian analysis entails hegemony maintenance and hegemony
> creation--Lisa Lowe's formulation--the subaltern functioning "in a kind of 
> way" as one who accommodates to, resists or contests a dominant group.
> 
> In this reading, the emphasis shifts from class origin as index of 
> positionality, within a fixed unalterable social structure, towards class 
> function as dis-positionality, within a system of exchanges. The subaltern (a 
> position) becomes  subalternation (a practice). 
> 
> pms.
> 
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