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Gayatri Spivak's "Can the Subaltern Speak"
Episode 131

Gayatri Spivak's "Can the Subaltern Speak"

Theory & Philosophy

August 8, 202049m 14s

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In this episode, I turn my attention to Gayatri Spivak's "Can the Subaltern Speak," a seminal text in the field of post-colonial studies. Spivak argues that between patriarchal and imperial forces, subaltern people--women, specifically--are denied the capacity to speak.