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Subalternity and representation : arguments in cultural theory
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Subalternity and representation : arguments in cultural theory

Author: John Beverley
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 1999.
Series: Post-contemporary interventions.
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The term 'subalternity' refers to a condition of subordination brought about by colonization or other forms of economic, social, racial, linguistic, and/or cultural dominance. Subaltern studies is, therefore, a study of power. Who has it and who does not. Who is gaining it and who is losing it. Power is intimately related to questions of representation - to which representations have cognitive authority and can  Read more...
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Beverley, John, 1943-
Subalternity and representation.
Durham : Duke University Press, 1999
(OCoLC)654530512
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: John Beverley
ISBN: 0822323826 9780822323822 0822324164 9780822324164
OCLC Number: 41565023
Description: xii, 202 p. ; 23 m.
Contents: Writing in reverse : the subaltern and the limits of academic knowledge --
Transculturation and subalternity : the "Lettered City" and the Túpac Amaru rebellion --
Our Rigoberta? I, Rigoberta Menchú, cultural authority, and the problem of subaltern agency --
Hybrid or binary? On the category of "the people" in subaltern and cultural studies --
Civil society, hybridity, and the "'political' aspect of cultural studies" (on Canclini) --
Territoriality, multiculturalism, and hegemony : the question of the nation.
Series Title: Post-contemporary interventions.
Responsibility: John Beverley.

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