If “there is no space from which the sexed …show more content…
In this essay, she argues that the gendered subalterns disappear because no attempt is made to recover the subaltern experience. Only with a focus on subaltern experience based on authenticity, the problem of representing the subaltern can be solveded. Spivak wants the subaltern to emerge as the maker of her own history and the architect of her own …show more content…
Along with activism, representation and re-presentation are important means through which the marginalised sections can resist hegemony. Spivak, in “A Literary Representation of the Subaltern,” suggests that literary texts can be alternative rhetorical sites for articulating the histories of subaltern women (364).One major problem with representation is that particular representation may be misread as representation of an entire culture. The representation of the average ‘Third World’ woman as ignorant, poor, uneducated, tradition bound, domesticated, family oriented, victimised, facilitates and privileges the self representation of western women as educated, modern, as having control over their own bodies and ‘sexualities’ and the ‘freedom’ to make their own decisions. (Mohanty