Sociology
G. Spivak
2005.11.1Postcolonial Studies
Abstract
Subaltern is to popular as gender is to sex, class to poverty, state to nation. One word inclines to reasonableness, the other to cathexis – occupation through desire. ‘Popular’ divides between des...
Citation format
SPIVAK, G. Scattered speculations on the subaltern and the popular. Postcolonial Studies, 2005, 8: 475–486.