A class’s derision of subaltern suicide underpinned Spivak’s statement that the subaltern cannot speak

Evidence

Incidentally, derisive comments made by upper-middle-class Indian Americans about the public version of Chuni’s suicide put me in mind of the dismissal of Bhubaneswari Bhaduri’s suicide by women of the next generation, anger against which produced my remark that the subaltern could not speak. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 2235

Categorization

• XREF: Directly names the origin context of ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’ — a key node in the genealogy being traced. — connects to: Spivak meant the subaltern is not heard, not literally mute