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Can the Subaltern Speak?: Reflections on the History of an Idea

Edited by Rosalind Morris

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Paper, 336 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14385-1
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March, 2010
Cloth, 336 pages,
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Introduction, by Rosalind C. Morris

Part 1 Text

"Can the Subaltern Speak?" revised edition, from the "History" chapter of Critique of Postcolonial Reason, by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Part 2 Contexts and Trajectories

Reflections on "Can the Subaltern Speak?" Subaltern Studies after Spivak, by Partha Chatterjee

Postcolonial Studies: Now That's History, by Ritu Birla

The Ethnical Affirmation of Human Rights: Gayatri Spivak's Intervention, by Drucilla Cornell

Part 3 Speaking of (Not) Hearing: Death and the Subaltern

Death and the Subaltern, by Rajeswawri Sunder Rajan

Between Speaking and Dying: Some Imperatives in the Emergence of the Subaltern in the Context of U.S. Slavery, by Abdul JanMohamed

Subalterns at War, by Michele Barrett

Part 4 Contemporaneities and Possible Futures: (Not) Speaking and Hearing

Biopower and the New International Division of Reproductive Labor, by Pheng Cheah

Moving from Subalternity: Indigenous Women in Guatemala and Mexico, by Jean Franco

Part 5 In Response

In Response: Looking Back, Looking Forward, by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Appendix Can the Subaltern Speak?

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

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About the Author

Rosalind C. Morris is professor of anthropology and former associate director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. A scholar of both mainland Southeast Asia and South Africa, she has published widely on topics concerning the politics of representation, the relationship between violence and value, gender and sexuality, the mass media, and the changing forms of modernity in the global south. Her most recent book is Photographies East: The Camera and Its Histories in East and Southeast Asia. She is also the author of In the Place of Origins: Modernity and Its Mediums in Northern Thailand and New Worlds from Fragments: Film, Ethnography, and the Representation of Northwest Coast Cultures.

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