Europe? A speech
My talk has two main points. One is a longstanding desire for continentality by the extreme northwestern edge of our continent, the island of Eurasia. It is a tiny edge and Imperial Europe is even a tiny edge of that one. The other point is a desire for a self, a mastership of interpellation. To be...
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| description | My talk has two main points. One is a longstanding desire for continentality by the extreme northwestern edge of our continent, the island of Eurasia. It is a tiny edge and Imperial Europe is even a tiny edge of that one. The other point is a desire for a self, a mastership of interpellation. To be the master of “Hey you,” which is what interpellation is. The one hailed thinks s/he is the right person. There is thus a complicity in interpellation, culturalism allows us to forget that. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b49123679d2d43098416fa37a78c1f032022-12-22T03:58:47ZengUniversidade Federal de Minas GeraisAletria: Revista de Estudos de Literatura1679-37492317-20962016-04-01253133010.17851/2317-2096.25.3.13-308224Europe? A speechGayatri Chakravorty Spivak0Columbia University, New York, EUAMy talk has two main points. One is a longstanding desire for continentality by the extreme northwestern edge of our continent, the island of Eurasia. It is a tiny edge and Imperial Europe is even a tiny edge of that one. The other point is a desire for a self, a mastership of interpellation. To be the master of “Hey you,” which is what interpellation is. The one hailed thinks s/he is the right person. There is thus a complicity in interpellation, culturalism allows us to forget that.http://www.periodicos.letras.ufmg.br/index.php/aletria/article/view/10405continentalidadeinterpelaçãocomplicidade. |
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| topic | continentalidade interpelação complicidade. |
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