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A Subaltern perspective is one where

  • A.Power-structures define and determine your command of language and language of command in an uneven world.
  • B.The politically dispossessed could be voiceless, written out of the historical record and ignored because their activities do not count for "Cultural" or "Structured".
  • C.You don't know what your 'story' is, how to deal with a 'story' and therefore you are forced to put stereotyped situations in it to please your listeners.
  • D.You begin to see how we live, how we have been living, how we have been led to imagine ourselves, how our language has trapped as well as liberated us.

Answer: B

The key gives the second option: a subaltern perspective is one where the politically dispossessed could be voiceless, written out of the historical record and ignored. The term comes from Gramsci and was taken up by the Subaltern Studies group, who sought to write the history of those left out of elite accounts of India's past.

The first option is about power and language in general, the third about a person who does not know their own story, and the fourth about how language has both trapped and freed us. None of them gives the particular sense of the unheard and excluded, so the second option is the answer.

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