In their writings, they are not really individuals, but a collective mass of dark inferiors) In order to claim sexual difference where it makes a difference, global sisterhood must receive this articulation even if the sisters in question are Asian, African, Arrab” (341).Ĭlaim 3: Eurocentric writers commit “Translation-as-Violation” (“ total ignorance of history And subject constitution,” meaning that European writers mistranslate the language orculture of the third world women or grossly misrepresent them in terms of gender andindividuality. Quote: “even as we feminist critics discover the troping error of the masculist truth- claim to universality or academic objectivity, we perform the lie of constituting a truth of global sisterhood where the mesmerizing model remains male and female sparring partners of generalizable or universalizable sexuality who are the chief protagonists in that European contest.
Q: What does Spivak mean by the truth claims made by the postcolonial Masculists?Ī: She is talking about colonial texts that try to justify colonialism for instance, (1) colonialism was an act of benevolent masculism/paternalism (2) it was a historically appropriate event, for instance “the Conquest of India” wasn’t really a “conquest.” Imperialism, in other words is “in loco parentis,” meaning that it was “in place of the parent”-to feed the starving, childish Indians who are utterly dependent on the first world.Ĭlaim 2: Eurocentric feminism is complicit with the white male imperialism. Therefore, it needs to be deconstructed-borrowed from De Man’s theory)
Therefore, needs “ The Tropological Deconstruction of Masculist Universalism.” (it means that “Truth Claim,” in this case, the truth claimed by the white male universalists, is no more than a trope, a figure of speech that passes as truth. Objective: Point out the “racism within feminism” against the third world women of colorĬlaim 1: Academic institutions insist “White Male as a Norm” for universal humanity. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present (1999).In Other worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1988).Myself I Must Remake: The Life and Poetry of W.Translation of Derrida’s Of Grammatology (1967).Social projects: Rural Literary Teacher Training (on grassroots level, in India and Bangladesh).Mellon Professor of English at university of Pittsburgh
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