Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Can Imperialism listen?
In the particular context of the whiteness debate in Europe, the question by Spivak “Can the Subaltern Speak?” could be reversed into “Can Imperialism listen?” to its own nature and can different kinds of imperialisms listen to each others, address intra and inter complexities and nuances, recognize the multiple subjectivities in their experiences, in their embodied realities grouped under the term ‘Subaltern’ or ‘alien citizen’ in the US, ‘extracomunitario’ in Italy and so on? Without this particular disposition, the subaltern voice can only be a generalized echo, the cry of the alternative as “alter-native” born somewhere else (as an African Italian book was entitled) destined to become the soundtrack accompanying European deafening silence of historical amnesia and in the void, but dangerous rhetoric of politics on immigration and its regulamentation.
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