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Title: Can the Subaltern Speak?: Two Works Series Vol.1
Author: SPIVAK GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY
Illustrator: LOAIZA ESTEFANIA PENAFIEL(PHOTO)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 08/07/2021
Imprint: WALTHER KONIG
Price: $24.99
Publishing status: NOT YET PUBLISHED
In 1985 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s seminal essay, ‘Can the Subaltern Speak’ transformed the analysis of colonialism. In a deeply divided world Spivak’s text interrogated the historical and ideological factors that, by obstructing the potential for certain subjects to be heard, maintained the degraded status of those subjects on the world’s peripheries. The text remains, in the third decade of the twenty-first century, as compelling as ever, and affirms the continuing relevance of Marxism to contemporary decolonial thought.
In this volume, the essay is given new life in dialogue with especially commissioned artwork by Ecuadorian artist Estefania Penafiel Loaiza. Loaiza’s preoccupation with questions of visibility and occlusion, the need for and absence of the image, has guide the creation of a mesmerising set of works. These form a visual vocabulary that echoes and refracts Spivak’s central terms, bringing new inflections to an enduringly important text.
Series: Two Works
ISBN: 9783960989004
Weight: 320g
Dimension: 210mm X 150mm
Pages: 148