Subaltern definition

Subaltern means that of “inferior rank”. In post-colonialism and related fields, subaltern refers to persons socially, politically, and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure. It is used in a general sense to refer to marginalized groups and the lower classes — a person rendered without agency by his or her social status.
Subaltern. Oxford Dictionary of English. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199571123.001.0001/acref- 9780199571123. Stuurman, Siep. 2000. “The Canon of the History of Political Thought: Its Critique and a Proposed Alternative.” History and Theory 39 (2): 147–166.

Examples of Subaltern in a sentence

  • Among the main postcolonial feminist authors are ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, with her essay “Under Western Eyes” (1984), ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, with her article “Can the Subaltern Speak?” (1988), and ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇.

  • Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowl- edge and Border Thinking.

  • Bazelmans 1996, 94), ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇'▇ early ethnographic work took place in colo- nial Algeria and the Subaltern Studies group mostly deals with India and Malaysia after independence.

  • Tamil Movies Aruvi and Super Deluxe, Marginalisation, Cultural Industry, Existential Angst, Capitalistic Society, Outcasts, Gender studies, Subaltern studies, Deconstructive reading and Queer theory.

  • A central figure within the Subaltern Studies Collective, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇’s oeuvre, has sought to critique the pervasiveness of knowledges which sublate historical difference to the essentialising, all-encompassing logics of capital or the experiences of European Enlightenment.

  • The term Subaltern was taken from ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇’▇ euphemism for the proletariat in his Prison Notebooks.

  • While in recent years the Subaltern Studies school has expanded to include work on other regions and has inspired Subaltern Studies initiatives in other historical and geographical contexts, its purview has largely been “South Asian” [or strictly speaking, Indian] history.

  • And the work of the mainly Indian-based Subaltern Studies collective.

  • I wish to examine the said texts against the background of Subaltern Studies’ approach of reading history from below.

  • In the early work of the Subaltern Studies collective, the term was often interchangeable with the category of “peasant”, marking the project’s debt to the Italian communist, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.

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