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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 80–105.
Published: 01 April 2021
... contemporary Western films. Its first section, tracing what Wolfe called his “pharmacological indebtedness” to Gayatri Spivak, considers the methodological problems for settler colonial studies that have emerged from Wolfe’s critique of the settler intellectual’s representation of Indigenous resistance...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 241–252.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Nasrin Olla Abstract Should critical traditions value transparency, surface effects, and a realist attitude? Does the frame of realism help us recognize, narrate, and understand histories marked by erasure? This article analyzes Denise Riley’s 1988 book “Am I That Name?” alongside Gayatri Spivak’s...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 86–94.
Published: 01 April 2012
..., are played out through Neel), but at least one aspect ofDevi's Dopdi is sustained in Deeti: she allegorizes, as Gayatri Spivak suggests ofDopdi, the question ofwhether women can have agency in such political struggle.6 Ghosh's Deeti stratifies past, present, and future historical violence, figured...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 203–212.
Published: 01 October 2019
... of Power: Theories in Subjection (1997) , 2 -3. 5. Ibid., 55. 6. Ibid., 205n7. 7. "Intellectuals and Power: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Gilles Deletize;' inLanguage, Counter-Memory. Practice: SelectedEssaysandinterviews, ed. Donald F. Bouchard (1977) , 205-217. 8. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 213–216.
Published: 01 October 2019
... speed. I couldn't help but notice that the texts by Judith Butler and Gayatri Spivak cited by Connolly as evidence of the continued relevance of the concept of repres­ sion-texts that are quite close to my heart-were written over twenty years ago by theorists whose intellectual formation took place...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 223–240.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of Riley’s feminist thought means thinking about her text in relation to others with comparable projects echoing her concerns. Her work belongs to a constellation of feminist theorists—Hortense Spillers, Gayatri Spivak, Monique Wittig—who also troubled the very foundations of feminist identities at that same...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 130–147.
Published: 01 April 2011
..., households, the state, and 'Third World women; supplanting the mechanistic narrative ofwomen'ssubsumption to the logic of capital accumulation with multiple stories ofcomplexityand contestation:'16 By way of example, Gayatri Spivak relates that in a semiconductor plant in South Korea, maleworkers...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 133–145.
Published: 01 October 2016
... the repetition of the known. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has also argued in favor ofhumanities -based research as a way oflearning "fromthe singular and the unverifiable;' urging us to embrace "the exercise of the imagination" en route to "an uncoercive rearrangement of desire:'7 For Spivak, such work...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 4–33.
Published: 01 April 2022
... (ante-Oedipus)—and if the colonial Caribbean forms the foundation of metropolitan modernity—then rape appears prior to incest as the structuring difference of the psyche and the subject. (See Beckert , especially 61; Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson ; Draper .) Indeed, Gayatri Spivak argues...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 122–128.
Published: 01 April 2020
... its recursive structure to do a bit of that, too, in these scattered speculations (to borrow from Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak) on Familiar Stranger . A memorable moment in “Cultural Studies and Its Theoretical Legacies” is Hall’s account of feminism’s disruptive and decisive effect...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 34–59.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of their unspeakable crimes—is something we “cannot not want,” to borrow a concept from Gayatri Spivak’s critique of human rights ( 279 ). Yet, as Scott points out, history is not only made by humans, albeit under circumstances often beyond our own making, but also resists any final closure. Conceiving of history...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 241–269.
Published: 01 October 2022
... and Foucault , especially as interpreted by thinkers such as Gayatri Spivak (“Subaltern”) and Edward Said ( “Criticism” ; Orientalism ), many of the central works of postcolonial studies labored to write difference, multiplicity, contingency, and ambiguity into concepts and narratives that were presented...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 184–199.
Published: 01 October 2012
... protection, can be regarded as constituting the contemporary form of a well-known Western mythology, or an "old ploy" as Leila Ahmed calls it, namely, that ofthe "white men [claiming to be] saving brown women from brown men;' to use Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's apposite phrase.3 For instance, it could...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 April 2012
... ofhistory; and to what Gayatri Spivak has called the practice ofpostcolonial reason. Confronted withthe arriving and coming catastrophes ofclimate change, freedom can no longer be conceived ofas the freedom ofdifference against the power ofthe globalizing same. Nor will any number ofappeals to multiple...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 257–280.
Published: 01 October 2020
... to speak for the subaltern, in Gayatri Spivak’s terminology, as Smallwood notes (120). 14 Bearing in mind both Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s acknowledgment that “any historical narrative is a particular bundle of silences” (27) and Hartman’s discussion of the historical personage’s “right to obscurity...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 117–132.
Published: 01 October 2016
..., then, that Hartman wants a story in which the enslavedsubaltern can be heard to speal<. But as Spivak has cautioned, not only can the subaltern not speak, but the pretense that she can is itself a function of our own hubris.11 Hartman recognizes this as well; she acknowledges at the outset not only that hers...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (1): 65–82.
Published: 01 April 2015
... accountswould have it that Orientalism inaugurated postco­ lonial studies, along with the work ofHomi Bhabha and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.19 For his own part, Said demurred on the issue ofparentage because he had little time for what Benita Parry early on called the "exorbitation of discourse and a related...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (1): 27–54.
Published: 01 April 2019
... an - Kurdi - b e a c h - relive s - ho rror.html . 59. Raul Zurita, The Sea ofPain, Art Installation, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kerala, 12/12/2016 -3/29/2017. I owe awareness ofthis artwork to Arvind Rajagopal. 60. See e.g. the sharp rebuke by Nitasha Dhillon, citing Gayatri Spivak, of the image's "top- down...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 46–66.
Published: 01 April 2020
... . Skinner J. B. “ After have travelled . . . ” 1836 . Papers of Henry Heth. Slavery in Ante-bellum Southern Industries, series D, part 1, reel 22, 671. Spillers Hortense . “ Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book .” Diacritics 17 , no. 2 ( 1987 ): 64 – 81 . Spivak...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 200–218.
Published: 01 October 2012
... taries (visual and textual) are produced for diverse audiences whose referencing schemes for racial distinctions and meaning are not uniform. I can only address them schematically here: the racial characterization ofvillain and victim can be-to elaborate on Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's terms- "white...