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Subaltern
Subaltern meaning
Of a lower rank or position; inferior or secondary; especially (military) ranking as a junior officer, below the rank of captain. | Asserting only a part of what is asserted in a related proposition.
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Example sentences (8)
His intellect was refreshingly situated within an inherent bias towards the common people, the ‘subaltern’ classes, particularly the working class.
In the course of the century following the Industrial Revolution, labor socialism emerged as the subaltern force resisting it.
These essays read Ambedkar’s writings and propositions through the lens of Marxism, feminism, subaltern studies, and even take him beyond Indology.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 's Can the Subaltern Speak?
In A critique of Postcolonial Reason, Spivak argues that Western philosophy has a history of not only exclusion of the subaltern from discourse, but also does not allow them to occupy the space of a fully human subject.
In recent decades there have been four main schools of historiography regarding India: Cambridge, Nationalist, Marxist, and subaltern.
Marxism was a philosophy for the proletariat, a subaltern class, and thus could often only be expressed in the form of popular superstition and common sense.
Spivak, Chakravorty Gayatri; 1988; Can The Subaltern Speak?; in Nelson, Cary and Grossberg, Lawrence (eds); 1988; Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture; Macmillan Education, Basingstoke.