The Subaltern group’s glorified speech model rests on a crude psychology

Evidence

By this reckoning the history of writing is coincident with the inauguration and development of exploitation. Now there is no reason to question this well-documented story of what one might call writing in the “narrow” or “restricted” sense. However, over against this restricted model of writing one must not set up a model of speech to which is assigned a total self-identity based on a psychological model so crude as to imply that the space of “premeditation” is confined to the deliberative consciousness, and on empirical “evidence” so impressionistic as “the speed of oral speech.” — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1795

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Structuralist accounts render subalterns passive and erase their agency in sustaining racist ideologies — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3612

Broader Connections

• Structuralist accounts render subalterns passive and erase their agency in sustaining racist ideologies #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3612