Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak The Rani of Sirmur An Essay in Reading the Archives英文清晰.pdfVIP

THE RANI OF SIRMUR:AN ESSAYIN READING THE ARCHIVES* GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK Twoyearsago, when a conference with the title Europeand Its Otherswas proposedby the Sociologyof LiteratureGroupat Essex, I made some pious remarksabout an alternativetitle, namely,Europeas an Other.It has since then seemedto me that the in proposedrevisionwas ill-considered at leasttwo ways.First,it ignoredthe factthat the historyandthe theorythat sucha con- fe