Denied the chance to speak, the subaltern strains hard to gain that voice

Evidence

I will not deny that I was aware, when writing the book, of the subjective truth insinuated by Marx in the little sentence I quoted as one of the book’s epigraphs (“They cannot represent themselves; they must be represented.”), which is that if you feel you have been denied the chance to speak your piece, you will try extremely hard to get that chance. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 845

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the mechanism of representation denial generating counter-voice — core to the construction of the ‘Other’ toolkit.
• XREF: Echoes the colonial psychology readings on racialized selfhood and denied subjectivity; also links to Spivak. — connects to: Attending to the subaltern is necessary despite unavoidably erring — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 2429; A subaltern who becomes audible thereby ceases to be subaltern. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 43
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 845