Elite allies cannot access the gendered subaltern who still cannot speak

Evidence

The deconstructive embrace that holds the elite texts reporting on the nineteenth-century subaltern and the subalternist historians is another example. The elite allies can serve as monitory models for the decolonizing feminist, but they—Ovid, Freud, Delacroix, colonial elite— lose their lineaments in the process. They cannot serve when we try to learn—outside of the closed circuit of the production of academic knowledge—the impossible response to the gendered subaltern. In her own separate enclosure, the subaltern still cannot speak as the subject of a speech act. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1519

Categorization

• XREF: Reaffirms Spivak’s persistent claim from ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’ — the subaltern remains unspeakable as a subject even to well-intentioned elite allies.
• QUESTION: If the subaltern still cannot speak even through the best deconstructive allyship, what loosens the strategic-essentialism bind for the subaltern herself vs. for elite academics who wield the term?