Spivak Gayatri Spivak –born Gayatri Chakravorty Said Edward Said – born Edward Wadi Saïd
Lulú De Panbehchi 13 - APRIL - 2009 - ENGLISH 531
The Other (of) Europe = The Colonial Subject as Other Power is knowledge and vice versa. Tú eres la otra Españala que huele a caña, tabaco y breaeres la pe You are the other Spain the one that smells like sugar cane, tobacco, and tar you’re the lazy one the one with golden skin, the (female) sailor. . . Mocedades (1975) Google video
Similarities/Differences Edward Said 1935 -2003 b. Jerusalem demographics d. New York. Palestine. American. studies Gayatri Spivak 1942 - b. Calcutta, Indian-American. BA in English from the University of Calcutta (1959), BA (English? ), summa cum first class honors. MA in laude (1957) from Princeton, Master of Arts (1960) and a Ph. D. English from Cornell (1964) from Harvard University, Ph. D. From the University of Iowa. University Professor at Columbia University Professor at most University (1992), president of Columbia University (March important the MLA. 2007) teaching jobs languages English, French, Arabic English, French, Bengali
Similarities/Differences 2 Edward Said activism influenced by Gayatri Spivak (independent member) Palestinian National Council. Supported the two-state solution Women, indigenous people for Israel and Palestine. Foucault, Benjamin and other German philosophers, Derrida, Bernard Lewis. (Marx) most important work/ keywords Orientalism (1978) / orientalism, the other Europe starting points [Colonialism theory] The Enlightenment means education, and education means power. Europe had the power over its colonies because Europe knew more about the colonies than the colonies themselves. “The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences. ” Derrida, Foucault, Paul De Man, Deleuze, the Subaltern Group from India, Marx Subaltern (1988) / subaltern, strategic essentialism, erasure, counter-questions [Derrida, Said] The Other Europe. “Although the history of Europe as Subject is narrativized by the law, political economy, and ideology of the West, this concealed Subject pretends it has ‘no geo-political determinations. ’”
Similarities/Differences 3 Edward Said almost definitions “Anyone who teaches, writes about, or researches the Orient —and this applies whether the person is an anthropologist, sociologist, historian, or philologist—either in its specific or its general aspects, is an Orientalist, and what he or she does is Orientalism. ” Gayatri Spivak “According to Foucault and Deleuze the oppressed. . . if given the chance. . . , and on the way to solidarity through alliance politics. . . can speak and know their conditions. . . can the subaltern speak? ” “In subaltern studies, because of the violence of imperialist epistemic, social, and disciplinary inscription, a project understood in essentialist terms must traffic in a radical textual practice of differences. ”
Similarities/Differences 4 Edward Said “I should say again that I have no “real” Orient to argue for. ” “What I do argue also is a difference between knowledge of other peoples and other times that is the result of understanding, two decades compassion, careful study and analysis for their own sakes, and later. . . on the other hand, knowledge. . . that is part of an overall campaign of self-affirmation, belligerency, and outright war. ” (p. xviii-xix, Preface of 25 th ed. of Orientalism. Gayatri Spivak She’s accused of ruining “subaltern studies” by the SS from India. “No one can say ‘I’m a subaltern’ in any language. ” “The word subaltern and the idea of the popular do not inhabit a continuos space at all. ” “The relationship between ‘subaltern’ and ‘popular’ is like the relationship between ‘class’ and “poverty, ” or ‘race’ and ‘color. ’”
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