Ola Abdalkafor

Representing the Subaltern: Spivak's Reading of Foucault and Marx in "Can the Subaltern Speak?" Ola Abdalkafor

Undoubtedly, the Indian postcolonial critic Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak contributed a lot to postcolonial studies in general and subaltern studies in particular. Spivak is known for her resort to different discourses simultaneously such as: Marxism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction and feminism. ?Can the Subaltern Speak?? is one of her most prominent and notoriously difficult articles. Therefore, the aim of this work is offering a smooth movement from one discourse to another in one of Spivak?s most complicated and debatable works. It is an attempt to benefit the readers of this work, especially students, by clarifying part of the network that brings Spivak together with Marx and Foucault in a simple way.