Audiobook2 hours
A Macat Analysis of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's Can the Subaltern Speak?
Written by Graham K. Riach
Narrated by Macat.com
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
()
About this audiobook
Can the Subaltern Speak? is a classic of postcolonial studies, the discipline that examines the impact of colonial control on countries that gained their independence from European powers from the 1940s onwards. The essay, written in 1988 by Calcutta-born scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, argues that a core problem for the poorest and most marginalized in society (the subalterns) is that they have no platform to express their concerns, and no voice to affect policy debates or demand a fairer share of society's goods. The women among them, says Spivak, are doubly oppressed.
Spivak first earned her academic reputation thanks to her English translation of French philosopher Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology. This work, as well as feminism and Marxism, strongly influenced Can the Subaltern Speak? The essay has been widely praised for the insights it brings to postcolonial studies, but has also been criticized as dense and difficult to understand.
Spivak first earned her academic reputation thanks to her English translation of French philosopher Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology. This work, as well as feminism and Marxism, strongly influenced Can the Subaltern Speak? The essay has been widely praised for the insights it brings to postcolonial studies, but has also been criticized as dense and difficult to understand.
Related to A Macat Analysis of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's Can the Subaltern Speak?
Related audiobooks
A Macat Analysis of Claude Lévi-Strauss's Structural Anthropology Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Macat Analysis of Judith Butler's Gender Trouble Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Macat Analysis of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Macat Analysis of Max Weber's Politics as a Vocation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Macat Analysis of Joan Wallach Scott's Gender and the Politics of History Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Macat Analysis of Gordon W. Allport's The Nature of Prejudice Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Macat Analysis of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s The Phenomenology of Spirit Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Macat Analysis of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Theodor Adorno: A Very Short Introduction Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Macat Analysis of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An Introduction to Hegel's Logic Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Feminism: A Very Short Introduction Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Literary Theory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Macat Analysis of Roland Barthes's Mythologies Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Macat Analysis of Edward Said's Orientalism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Macat Analysis of Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Macat Analysis of Clifford Geertz's The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Macat Analysis of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Macat Analysis of Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Macat Analysis of Franz Boas's Race, Language and Culture Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Macat Analysis of Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality: Volume 1: The Will to Knowledge Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Discrimination & Race Relations For You
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Say the Right Thing: How to Talk about Identity, Diversity, and Justice Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Letter to a Bigot: Dead But Not Forgotten Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Cross and the Lynching Tree Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5SUMMARY Of White Fragility: Why It's So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The FBI War on Tupac Shakur: The State Repression of Black Leaders from the Civil Rights Era to the 1990s Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Jews Don’t Count Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, 10th Anniversary Edition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The End of Policing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for A Macat Analysis of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's Can the Subaltern Speak?
Rating: 4.818181818181818 out of 5 stars
5/5
11 ratings1 review
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is an excellent review of a rather difficult subject that is currently still in debate amongst post-colonial scholars. This is a great way to introduce graduate students and even undergraduate students to the very complex texts that form the foundation of a lot of academic disciplines.