Fwd: Re: Eagleton on Spivak

Rob Schaap rws at comserver.canberra.edu.au
Fri Oct 15 00:34:35 PDT 1999


G'day Kelley,

You write:


>for me, as a white working class person in the academy to claim some
>status as >subaltern is outrageous!

Well, I'm one, too - and I do often cringe when some sleek Harrods-frocked lefties confine their rhetoric to those all-too-easy appeals to victimhood - but I reckon a working class person is, by most important definition, certainly 'subaltern'. We may not be privates, but lieutenants are subalterns too

Fletcher Christian thought so, anyway.

Cheers, Rob.



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