Subalternity reloaded: singularity,collectivity and the politics of abstraction |
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Authors: | Jamila M H Mascat |
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Institution: | 1. Nosophi, University of Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne, 17 rue de la Sorbonne, 75005, Paris, Francej.mascat@internazionale.it |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACTThis contribution aims at outlining two different trajectories that can be traced throughout Spivak’s works, both of which take the concept of subalternity as their point of departure: the first analyses subalternity as a path to singularity and problematizes its consequences and impasses, while the second focuses on subaltern politics as a process of generalizability to be accomplished through self-synecdoche, namely through a metonymic process of de-singularization that only allows the subaltern to understand itself as a part of a collective whole (i.e. citizenship). The essay attempts to show the mutual complementarity of these two (seemingly) opposite moves in the direction of a possible strategy of desubalternization. |
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Keywords: | Subalternity singularity collectivity abstraction desubalternization |
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