Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea and Spivak, Mignolo, Hunt

When was Wide Sargasso Sea published

1966

Rhys: Antionette and Tia

‘We had eaten the same food, slept side by side, bathed in the same river’

Rhys: looking glass and Tia

‘it was as if I saw myself. Like in a looking-glass’

Rhys: Rochester’s view of Antionette

‘long, sad, dark alien eyes. Creole of pure English descent she may be, but they are not English or European either’

Rhys: on the homogeneity of the Caribbean

‘I don’t know the other islands at all’

Rhys: loss of identity in Antionette

‘I often wonder who I am and where is my country’

Rhys: on Antionette’s possessions

‘everything I had belongs to him’

Rhys: Antionette about her mother’s death

‘There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about’

Rhys: Rochester on why he calls her bertha

‘because it is a name I’m particularly fond of’

Rhys: Antionette while she is prisoner

‘a ghost in grey daylight. Nothing left but hopelessness’

Rhys: the ending and seeing Tia

‘Someone screamed and I thought, why did I scream’

Author and publish date of of Can the Subaltern Speak

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak(1988)

Spivak: on the subject

‘there is no fixed subject except by repression’

Spivak: Where Deluze and Foucault went wrong

‘fills the empty place of the agent with the historical sun of theory’

Spivak: on the intellectuals

‘the intellectuals represent themselves as transparent’

Spivak: how the family is silenced

‘the Name of the Father’

Spivak: on Marx’s theory

‘so macro logical that it cannot account for the micrological texture of power’

Spivak: on collectivity

‘the possibility of collectivity itself is persistently foreclosed through the manipulation of female agency’

Spivak: on the subaltern

‘the colonized subaltern subject is irretrievably heterogeneous’

Spivak: where we can find representation

‘in-betweenness’ and ‘measuring silences’

Spivak: the subaltern female

‘the subaltern female is even more deeply in shadow’

Spivak: on mechanics

‘developing work on the mechanics of the constitution of the Other’

Spivak: on a woman’s voice

‘One never encounters the testimony of the women’s voice-consciousness’

Spivak: on the widow analogy

‘paradox of free choice’

Spivak: word for good wife

‘Sati’

Author of Ontologies of Indigeneity

Sarah Hunt

Hunt: on where ontological shifts are possible

‘spaces between intellectual and lived expressions of Indigeneity’

Author of ‘From Cross-Genealogies and Subaltern Knowledge to Napantla’

Walter D. Mignolo

Mingnolo: what Nepantla does

Nepantla breaks away with the unity go a given language’

Mingnolo: on socialisms

‘the future will be conceived in terms of socialisms rather than socialism’