The subaltern subject is the knowing limit of all historical narration

Evidence

It acknowledges that the arena of the subaltern’s persistent emergence into hegemony must always and by definition remain heterogeneous to the efforts of the disciplinary historian. The historian must persist in his efforts in this awareness that the subaltern is necessarily the absolute limit of the place where history is narrativized into logic. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1774

Categorization

• DEFINE: The ‘subaltern’ as absolute limit explains why no strategy of subject-restoration can ever be proper to its object, feeding the reader’s impropriety criterion.
• XREF: connects to: The subaltern resists all adequate representation, so historians work at an acknowledged limit. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1774; History is always narrated through present relations of power — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2691; Subaltern transition from passive thing to active historical protagonist changes their responsibility — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1207

Broader Connections

• History is always narrated through present relations of power #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2691
• Subaltern transition from passive thing to active historical protagonist changes their responsibility #expands (0.78) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1207