Selected subaltern studies

These ten essays culled from the five volumes of ´Subaltern Studies´ aim to ´promote a systematic and informed discussion of subaltern themes in the field of South Asian studies, and thus help to rectify the elitist bias characteristic of much reserach and academic work in this particular area.´

This provocative volume presents the most wide-ranging essays from the first five volumes of Subaltern Studies, along with an introductory essay by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak--the translator of Derrida´s Of Grammatology into English--and a foreword by eminent critic Edward W. Said. Addressed