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The Subaltern and the Minor: For Qadri Ismail
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 275–309.
Published: 01 August 2022
... and autonomy. That aspiration is not new; in parallax ways, both Babasaheb Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi strive for such a freedom and equality. The aspiration is also an implicit stake of the Subaltern Studies tradition, as is manifest in Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's invocation of “love.” The other freedom...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (3): 464–492.
Published: 01 December 2023
... modern and nonmodern semiotic, grammatological, and aesthetic traditions, Guha reconceived time as a function of the limits and possibilities of human language and argued that common lives and subaltern subjects could not be accessed without admitting to the heterogenous temporal constitution—“time-knots...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 300–311.
Published: 01 August 2020
... of focusing attention on the experiences of survivors after catastrophic experiences of genocides. The survivor as described in this interview is neither a wretched of the earth, who is forced to live a tortured life, nor a subaltern whose voice cannot acquire speech. The survivor instead is an existence...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (1): 39–57.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Michael Allan Abstract This essay tracks Karl Marx's famous line “They cannot represent themselves; they must be represented” as it travels from a translated epigraph in Edward Said's Orientalism to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's “Can the Subaltern Speak?” What follows from this minor textual detail...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 389–416.
Published: 01 December 2021
... with theorizations that were rethinking Marxism and class in relation to colonial histories, theorizations inspired in particular by the work of the South Asian subaltern studies collective. 33 Whichever side of the debate one fell on in relation to the race-class exchanges, colonialism as such tended...
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Mahdi Amel and the Nonidentical
Open Access
Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 543–551.
Published: 01 December 2021
..., not a charge specific to Said, but in the 1980s it embodied the view of subaltern studies more generally. Similar to Amel's critique of Said, see Vivek Chibber's critique of subaltern studies in Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital . Chibber accuses subaltern studies of being beholden to their own...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 478–480.
Published: 01 December 2021
...: the terms “Oriental” and “Asiatic mode of production” are complicit with the logic of silencing the subaltern encapsulated in the claim, repeated in Orientalism 's first epigraph, that “they cannot represent themselves; they must be represented.” 1 In Said's appraisal, Marxism is morally culpable...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 534–550.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and skills acquired through university education and sociopolitical activism, venture to construct subaltern history, cultural memory, and identities by using the resources not only from what is assumed to be their unique cultural tradition of “suffering,” but also from Hindu traditions and prevailing...
FIGURES
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Prefatory Remarks: Crisis and Critique
Open Access
Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 April 2018
... capital and in light of the explosion of cultural localisms and political particularisms and polarizations. Another key factor underlying this crisis is the action of subaltern groups around the world. Such groups—in India, Turkey, South America, or the US—are producing a re-materialization...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 183–201.
Published: 01 April 2022
....” The restructuring is organized under the rubric of respectful design, according to five strategies: foregrounding the demands of subaltern and marginalized groups through cluster (not isolated) hires; owning up to the institution's complicity with racism and white supremacy; establishing authentic relations...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (3): 478–501.
Published: 01 December 2024
.... 27. See Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak?” 28. New Sanctuary Coalition Legal Clinic Training, New York City, April 2018. 29. To say that migration is autonomous means that, despite the extensive control over mobility, it continues to be one of the main shaping forces of our...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (3): 493–516.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., Soumyabrata Choudhury, and Ananya Vajpeyi, among others. Kumar, Radical Equality ; Kumar, “In the Void of Faith” ; Skaria, “Ambedkar, Marx and the Buddhist Question” ; Skaria, “Subaltern and the Minor” ; Banerjee, Elementary Aspects of the Political ; Choudhury, Ambedkar and Other Immortals...
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The Right to Strike and Legal War in Walter Benjamin's “Toward the Critique of Violence”
Open Access
Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 252–260.
Published: 01 August 2019
... to reassure the masters (the dominant class) by showing them that they have nothing to fear for their interests, while asking the subaltern masses to wait. Consequently, the expounders of this superstition refuse all forms of violence that are not legitimized and organized by the state. The preservation...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 519–527.
Published: 01 December 2020
...” of caste, and this “un-thought” is radicalized, articulated, and penetrated through various cultural resources by subaltern anti-caste thinkers. One could, in fact, grant this act of exscription a specific kind of modernity that is both closed and open-ended, fragile, and ecologically just. He also terms...
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The Return of Nonviolence
Open Access
Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 93–101.
Published: 01 April 2021
... and subalternity, might violence and nonviolence become their successors? The moment this question is asked it appears preposterous. Is this because, however ubiquitous terms like violence and nonviolence have become in public life, they have no real intellectual roots in Western political thought? These terms...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 182–214.
Published: 01 April 2024
... in this poem, even as she writes from a “subaltern” position, moves Puerto Ricanness into the privileged position it will acquire under ethnonationalism. As we learn of de Burgos's poetics of self-immolation through the libidinal drift of her racial desire, we can begin to see de Burgos as both an originator...
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Humanism: A Critical Reappraisal
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 29–38.
Published: 01 April 2019
... and counter-publics, notably from natives or subalterns subjected to this form of moral and political imperialism. Anti-humanism III rejects the manipulation of emotions associated with attention to suffering and the call to humaneness, which are seen by some to obscure the political demand for social justice...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (1): 58–84.
Published: 01 April 2023
.... 9. Melić, “Faire entendre les voix silencieuses,” 223 . 10. Trinh, “Image and the Void,” 136 . 11. Trinh, When the Moon , 30 . 12. Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak?,” 84 . 13. Trinh, Woman, Native, Other . 14. Trinh, When the Moon , 61 . 15. Chen...
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At Odds with the Temporalities of the Im-possible; or, What Critical Theory Can (Still) Do
Open Access
Critical Times (2020) 3 (2): 249–276.
Published: 01 August 2020
... corporatization. She writes that on the ethico-political register of subaltern and postcolonial literary criticism, “perhaps the literary can still do something. Or perhaps not.” 1 She continues: “That any reader will waste the time to learn to parse the desires (not the needs) of collective examples...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 359–388.
Published: 01 December 2021
... to colonial periphery. Locating the source of the lordship/bondage dialectic in the Haitian Revolution, Buck-Morss conceives of the colonized as the source of the ideal of universal freedom. But this has the unintended effect of recognizing subaltern political action only through the verification...
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