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  1. Chakravorty Spivak 1990: 59–60.

  2. One cautionary note: Chakravorty Spivak can be unnecessarily dense and ob-
    tuse when approached for the first time. Morton 2003 is a good stepping stone and
    guide to her thought. He also provides a comprehensive bibliography of her works
    updated to 2003 (including her famous 1985 essay “Can the Subaltern Speak? Specu-
    lations on Widow-Sacrifice”). The origins of the theory of inner colonization, the
    main plank of the “Frankfurt School” of critical theory, is to be found in the state-
    ment of Marx that “it is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, on
    the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness” (cited in Hanks
    2002: 1).

  3. Cf. Foucault 1972: 12, 126–31.

  4. Smith 1999: 44.

  5. Ibid., 137–39.

  6. Ibid., 176.

  7. See the eleven volumes published to date by the Subaltern Studies Group. See
    also Hanks 2002.

  8. I owe this discussion of Gandhian satyagrahato Mark Juergensmeyer (2002).


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