By Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Spivak, one among our greatest identified cultural and literary theorists, addresses an enormous variety of political questions with either pen and voice during this special e-book. The Post-Colonial Critic brings jointly a range of interviews and discussions during which she has taken half over the last 5 years; jointly they articulate essentially the most compelling politico-theoretical problems with the present.
In those vigorous texts, scholars of Spivak's paintings will determine her unmistakeable voice as she speaks on questions of illustration and self-representation, the politicization of deconstruction; the events of post-colonial critics; pedagogical accountability; and political suggestions.
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Auch um der Ohnmacht—er kenne sie wohl—ein leises “dennoch” abzunötigen’ (TT, 91). The value of the group’s literary inclinations becomes most apparent, however, in the incident with the thistle. A stroke of literary inspiration on Gryphius’s part makes him elevate the potted thistle to the status of an emblem for Germany, ‘das Vaterland’, that has been so ravaged by war. Even when he smashes the pot to smithereens the thistle remains unharmed. Zesen is quick to spot the metaphorical implications of the symbol’s fortuitous escape—nothing can destroy the true core of Germany—and within minutes the authors have agreed on a final draft of their political manifesto.
Not only does the text not have any answers, it also actively poses questions. In particular, the seemingly unidentifiable first-person narrator has caused considerable speculation amongst Grass scholars. 27 Although most commentators are now agreed that any specific identity is probably untraceable, Alexander Weber has gone to some lengths to identify the first-person narrator as one historical personage. Reading the text extremely closely and applying a baroque approach to possible emblems within it, he makes a strong case for identifying the first-person narrator with the little-known poet Johann Matthias Schneuber.
215. , 221. Models of Authorship: Das Treffen in Telgte 35 in terms of ideology: the author is an ‘ideological figure’ briefed to act as ‘regulator of the fictive’. 39 The above description of the basic tenets of Foucault’s argument should make clear that his understanding of authorship embraces both textual and social aspects. An author is a kind of social role, conditioned by social discourse in line with dominant ideology, and a textual role, conditioned at times by the text itself and at times by those readers and critics who use the author as an interpretative paradigm for this text.