Introduction, by Rosalind C. Morris
Part 1 Text
"Can the Subaltern Speak?" revised edition, from the "History" chapter of Critique of Postcolonial Reason, by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Part 2 Contexts and Trajectories
Reflections on "Can the Subaltern Speak?" Subaltern Studies after Spivak, by Partha Chatterjee Postcolonial Studies: Now That's History, by Ritu Birla
The Ethnical Affirmation of Human Rights: Gayatri Spivak's Intervention, by Drucilla Cornell Part 3 Speaking of (Not) Hearing: Death and the Subaltern
Death and the Subaltern, by Rajeswawri Sunder Rajan
Between Speaking and Dying: Some Imperatives in the Emergence of the Subaltern in the Context of U.S. Slavery, by Abdul JanMohamed
Subalterns at War, by Michele Barrett
Part 4 Contemporaneities and Possible Futures: (Not) Speaking and Hearing
Biopower and the New International Division of Reproductive Labor, by Pheng Cheah
Moving from Subalternity: Indigenous Women in Guatemala and Mexico, by Jean Franco
Part 5 In Response
In Response: Looking Back, Looking Forward, by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Appendix Can the Subaltern Speak? Bibliography
Contributors
Index