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Week 2: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak "Can The Subaltern Speak?" Joan W. Scott "The Evidence of Experience"
Week 2: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak "Can The Subaltern Speak?" Joan W. Scott "The Evidence of Experience"
• 9.29-20mins
Extra discussion questions:
1. Why is Marx relevant to Spivak?
2. What is the tension in her writing – how does
she critique representation and subaltern
studies?
3. How does Spivak counter the problem of
speaking for subaltern woman?
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
(1802 – 1838)
A Suttee