Even networked subalterns remain objects of critique rather than speaking subjects

Evidence

In her own separate enclosure, the subaltern still cannot speak as the subject of a speech act. Dishing out our personal pain in academic bestsellers serves women on the make or catharsizing voyeurs. And Rigoberta Menchu, a spirited subaltern who has networked herself into the structure of hegemonic discourse, immediately becomes the object of right-wing critique. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1519

Categorization

• XREF: The Menchu case exemplifies what happens to a subject who attempts strategic entry into hegemonic discourse — her credentialed self-positioning doesn’t confer the authority to speak. — connects to: Subaltern speech fails as a transaction between speaker and listener, not as utterance — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 2296; Recovering subjugated knowledges risks rebuilding a unitary discourse; Adversaries can understand subaltern political technique better than subalterns (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Subaltern speech becomes agency only within responsive resistance #expands (0.85)
• Recovering subjugated knowledges risks rebuilding a unitary discourse #complicates (0.82)
• Some suffering resists articulation when public dialogue is skewed #corroborates (0.78)
• Adversaries can understand subaltern political technique better than subalterns #complicates (0.75)