by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, 1988
SOME
OF THE most radical criticism coming out of the West today is the
result of an interested desire to conserve the subject of the West,
or the West as Subject. The theory of pluralized ‘subject-effects’
gives an illusion of undermining subjective sovereignty while often
providing a cover for this subject of knowledge. 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.’ The much publicized critique of the
sovereign subject thus actually inaugurates a Subject….
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