Can Subaltern Speak Analysis

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an unsettling voice in literary theory and especially, post colonial studies. She has describes herself as a “practical deconstructionist feminist Marxist” and as a “gadfly”. she uses deconstruction to examine how the truth is constructed and to deploy the assertions of one intellectual and political position to interrupt” or “bring into crisis”. in her work she combines passionate denunciations of the harm done to women, non-Europeans and the poor by the privileged West with a president questioning of the grounds on which radical critique takes its stand.
Her restless critiques connect directly to her critical aspiration for a “politics of the open end “, in which deconstruction acts as a safeguard ‘against the

May be Spivak’s best-known essay, and it has controversial things. Post colonial critics like many feminists want to give silence to others a voice. But Spivak worries that even the most benevolent effort merely repeats the very silencing it aims to combat. Spivak points out the British outlawing of sati, the Hindu practice of burning a widow on her husband’s funeral pyre. While this invention saved some lives and may have given women a modicum of free choice, it also served to secure British power in India. It discussed the difference between British “Civilization” and Indian

Her face softens when she speaks of her elder brother, the Dalit thinker Raj Gauthama. Since her father was away in the army, he was like a father to them. “We are not rich”, he would say. “We have no social status. Only your education will bring you respect”. And she used to write short poems that she read out to him. He introduced to her to Tamil Literature. He was very strict but gave us freedom; actually, he gave them the motivation for life. He played a very important role in her life. Through her brother and friends encouragement bama came to this wonderful writing field and now a day’s also she survive in the world