
Spivak's 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' questions if marginalized voices can be heard within dominant discourse
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Spivak's 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' questions if marginalized voices can be heard within dominant discourse
Bakhtin's concept of the 'dialogic' novel means
Bakhtin's 'dialogic' novel features multiple voices and perspectives without a dominant one
Shylock's 'Hath not a Jew eyes' speech does
Shylock's speech forces the audience to confront their own prejudice
New Criticism
New Criticism focused on the poem as an autonomous object
Dickinson's dashes do
Dickinson's dashes fracture syntax to mirror the fluidity of thought
Said's Orientalism exposes
"What Said's Orientalism exposes — Western literary representations of the East as a form of cultural domination."
DeLillo's White Noise examines
White Noise explores the fear of death through consumer culture and media noise
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