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Homi Bhabha's "The Location of Culture" (Part 1/2)

Theory & Philosophy

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Can the Subaltern Speak?

Baba defines negotiation as the structure of iteration, which informs political movements that attempt to articulate antagonistic and oppositional elements. In speabag asks, can the subaltern speak? And I wonder to what extent that sort of speech relies on the subaltern figure with a subaltern voice adopting a sort of, you know, Western perspective or as phenomenal might say it, blackface white mask.

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