daughter about the lifelong torment she suffered because of her husband’s love affairs and self-indulgence’ before her daughter ‘eventually passed these stories on to her own grown daughter, Shizuko’ (p 473). Yet, true to Spivak’s assertion, the ‘subaltern…cannot be heard by the privileged’ - even though the stories are ultimately heard by people who are in one way or another related to the oppressed women, communication still occurs only at the personal level when women who identify with the stories
SUBALTERN The subaltern is a technical term for certain kind of a dispossessed person. It is a person who fits within the model of the oppressor/ oppressed as they being so marginalized as to not even have the ‘voice’ of the oppressed. So, symbolically, we might say that the colonizer is self, colonized is the other, and all those who are invisible to both self and the other are the subaltern. In critical theory and post colonialism, the term subaltern designates the populations which are socially
The introductory chapter will throw light upon the key concept of Subaltern Studies and Discourse Analysis. It gives the basic idea of post-colonialism as it is necessary to know about post-colonialism to understand subaltern theory. The postcolonial theory studies the ‘Third World’ nations as they are put in the margin by the ‘First World’ nations. Postcolonial literature is internally a diverse cluster of writers and writers. The postcolonial writers are involved in the struggle against the colonialism/imperialism
Faculty of Literature and Humanities Department of English Language and Literature Master’s Thesis Developing a Critical Classroom Discourse Analysis (CCDA) Framework for Interaction Analysis in an Iranian EFL Context By: Amin Davoodi Supervisor: Mostafa Hasrati, PhD Advisor: Nouroddin Yousofi, PhD February, 2015 Acknowledgment I would like to express my special appreciation and thanks to all those who contributed to this thesis. First of all, I would like to express my immense gratitude