Listening to the other : explorations in subaltern representation

• Main Author: Er, Yanbing.
• Other Authors: Yong Wern Mei
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100048; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/7796
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

According to Gayatri Spivak, subalternity is an inherent paradox: it is “a position without identity”. Retrieving the subaltern subject from the periphery of hegemonic discourse risks destroying its inherent alterity, and yet adhering to the status quo disregards the political realities surrounding...