GAYATRI'S VOICE OF DISSCENT IN

Volume : VII, Issue : V, May - 2018

Dr. N. Priyadharsini

INTRODUCTION:

Speak has become an authoritative voice of the post–colonial period since the publication of her eassy �Can the Subaltern Speak?� She has extended

her discourse to a large variety of topics such as Marxism, Feminism and Deconstruction. Spivak, the post–colonial intellectual, was born in

Calcutta on 24 Feuary 1942.

Spivak, through her cultural and critical theories, tried to challenge the legacy of colonialism. She refused to admit the notion that the Western

Word is having an upper hand over the Third World as it is more purified from the grossness of acute barbarism. Her critical discourse raises the

issues the issues of marginal subjects such as the place of the subaltern women in the society and their empowerment. Though the people could

surpass the colonial rule, they are not actually free from its influences and power structures.

Spivak borrows the term ‘subaltern‘ from Gramsci, to refer to the unrepresented group of people in the society. In the Indian cultural context, the

term ‘subaltern‘ acquires more significance as the people have struggled hard for Indian independence. She prefers the term ‘subaltern‘ as it

encompasses the exact picture of the lower class people.