Schlagwort: Critical Theory; Critique of Ideology; Epistemology; Knowledge Production; Postcolonialism
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“Can the Bourgeois Theorist Hear?”
Revisiting the Spivakian Critique of Colonial Epistemes of Modernity First published 35 years ago, “Can the Subaltern Speak?” by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is regarded as a foundational contribution to postcolonial thought and remains an influential force to be reckoned with in both the humanities and the social sciences. The following text is a reappraisal of…