By T. Sakhkhane
Exploring, among different topics, representations of the opposite, options followed to withstand such representations, the problems of identification, nationalism, colonialism, feminism, subaltern reports and the English language in the context of Empire, this ebook tasks a learn of post-colonialism during the paintings of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
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Intellectuals, academics and critics are, in a dubious metaphor that many would object to, the latter-day Christs who should bear the cross for their marginalization. In a muchquoted passage, Spivak characterizes the position of intellectuals in the new configuration of power as one of marginalization, a lot for which they are responsible in part: We are the disc jockeys of an advanced technocracy. … Within this intricably determined and multiform situation, the disc jockey and his audience think, indeed are made to think, that they are free to play.
Black it maybe when the shrubs are burnt, as they often are. Pitt’s Amphitheatre disappointed me. 26 In the Australian wilderness, all the conceptual and linguistic apparatus usually used to tabulate and classify reality is thrown into 24 Postcolonialism: The Critic at Work dissonance, for the names and the things they refer to are quite dissimilar, not matching the traveller’s cognitive anticipation. No wonder, then, that in the absence of a correct correspondence between the geographical signifiers and their referents, there are misnomers that attest to the crisis in nomenclature and may prove another case of the sublime.
For Spivak, Derridean criticism is of large significance, allowing her, a Third-World woman, the means to break down the prejudices A Four-hundred-year-old Woman 21 and stereotypes that condemn her to being marginalized and treated in a gender-specific way. Here the personal and the political merge, the individual and the collective interweave, making deconstruction a means of self-assertion. 18 In this way, deconstruction offers salvation from all essentialist, totalitarian discourses. Secondly, Spivak is also a Feminist critic and activist who struggles against all forms of gendered oppression and sexual discrimination.