used in the sense of a deconstructionist approach. The subaltern identity turns out for Spivak, not as a "true" or even "natural" essence, but as fictional and influential. A subaltern consciousness is therefore a "theoretical fiction" with high strategic value insofar as it allows to carry out the dominant colonial and national-bourgeois historiography of a fundamental criticism.
(see Castro Varela, Maria do Mar / Dhawan, Nikita: Postcolonial theory . A Critical Introduction . Bielefeld: transcript 2005 , p.69-77)
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