Left-Wing and the ‘Other’ History: Gayatri Spivak’s ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’

Gayatri Spivak One of the most influential works in postcolonial studies is Can the Subaltern Speak? (1983) by Gayatri Spivak. Spivak, in her own words, is a ‘practical Marxist-feminist-deconstructionist’ applying feminist, Marxist, and some postmodernist ideas to society, thought, and the past. Hence, this post will focus on both ‘Left-wing’ and the ‘Other’ history. Can