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Meaning of "subalternity" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SUBALTERNITY

subalternity  [ˌsʌbɔːlˈtɜːnɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SUBALTERNITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Subalternity is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SUBALTERNITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

subalternity

Subaltern (postcolonialism)

In critical theory and post-colonialism, subaltern is the social group who is socially, politically, and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure of the colony and of the colonial homeland. In describing “history told from below”, the term subaltern derived from the cultural hegemony work of Antonio Gramsci, which identified the social groups who are excluded from a society’s established structures for political representation, the means by which people have a voice in their society. The terms subaltern and subaltern studies entered the field of post-colonial studies through the works of the Subaltern Studies Group, a collection of South Asian historians who explored the political-actor role of the men and women who are the mass population — rather than the political roles of the social and economic élites — in the history of South Asia.

Definition of subalternity in the English dictionary

The definition of subalternity in the dictionary is the quality or state of being in a subordinate position.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SUBALTERNITY


amenity
əˈmiːnɪtɪ
coeternity
ˌkəʊɪˈtɜːnɪtɪ
community
kəˈmjuːnɪtɪ
confraternity
ˌkɒnfrəˈtɜːnɪtɪ
diuturnity
ˌdaɪjʊˈtɜːnɪtɪ
equal-opportunity
ˌiːkwəlˌɒpəˈtjuːnɪtɪ
eternity
ɪˈtɜːnɪtɪ
eviternity
ˌiːvɪˈtɜːnɪtɪ
fraternity
frəˈtɜːnɪtɪ
immunity
ɪˈmjuːnɪtɪ
impunity
ɪmˈpjuːnɪtɪ
interfraternity
ˌɪntəfrəˈtɜːnɪtɪ
maternity
məˈtɜːnɪtɪ
modernity
mɒˈdɜːnɪtɪ
opportunity
ˌɒpəˈtjuːnɪtɪ
paternity
pəˈtɜːnɪtɪ
quaternity
kwəˈtɜːnɪtɪ
sempiternity
ˌsɛmpɪˈtɜːnɪtɪ
taciturnity
ˌtæsɪˈtɜːnɪtɪ
unity
ˈjuːnɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SUBALTERNITY

subahdary
subahship
subalar
suballiance
suballocation
subalpine
subaltern
subalternant
subalternate
subalternation
subangular
subantarctic
subapical
subapostolic
subappearance
subaqua
subaquatic
subaqueous
subarachnoid
subarachnoidal

WORDS THAT END LIKE SUBALTERNITY

affinity
Christianity
dignity
divinity
equal opportunity
femininity
gated community
Holy Trinity
humanity
indemnity
infinity
insanity
profanity
sanity
serenity
trinity
vanity
vicinity
virginity
yachting fraternity

Synonyms and antonyms of subalternity in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «subalternity» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SUBALTERNITY

Find out the translation of subalternity to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of subalternity from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «subalternity» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

subalternity
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

subalternidad
570 millions of speakers

English

subalternity
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

subalternity
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

subalternity
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

subalternity
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

subalternidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

subalternity
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

subalternité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kebahagiaan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Subalternität
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

subalternity
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

subalternity
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Subalternity
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

subalternity
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

subalternity
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उपनिर्यात
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

subalternity
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

subalternità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

subalternity
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

subalternity
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

subalternity
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

subalternity
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

subalternity
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

underordning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

subalternity
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of subalternity

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SUBALTERNITY»

The term «subalternity» is used very little and occupies the 156.754 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SUBALTERNITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «subalternity» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «subalternity» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about subalternity

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUBALTERNITY»

Discover the use of subalternity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to subalternity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Subalternity and Representation: Arguments in Cultural Theory
At once clear and conceptually sophisticated, this book engagingly rehearses many of the basic issues, texts and problems of the field but is in no way derivative.
John Beverley, 1999
2
Gayatri Spivak: Ethics, Subalternity and the Critique of ...
In this book Stephen Morton offers a wide-ranging introduction to and critique of Spivaks work.
Stephen Morton, 2007
3
The Other Side of the Popular: Neoliberalism and ...
This book fills a gap in the area of Latin American cultural studies and it does so with serious scholarship, brilliance, and intellectual commitment."--Horacio Legras, Georgetown University
Gareth Williams, 2002
4
Mimesis, Agency, Subalternity: Irish and Caribbean Playboys ...
Master's Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 1,3, LMU Munich (Anglistik), language: English, abstract: Introduction The aim of the present thesis is to explore ...
Rositsa Kronast, 2010
5
Subalternity and Religion: The Prehistory of Dalit ...
1. Subalternity. at. the. cusp. Limits. and. openings. of. the. dalit. critique. This book tries to imagine what it means to intercept a mode of thinking at the cusp.1 Its subject is the poetry of three medieval saint-poets from northern and western India ...
Milind Wakankar, 2010
6
Resistance and Consciousness in Kenya and South Africa: ...
This study undertakes an analysis of the models of response (resistance/non-agency) to colonial, apartheid and post-colonial imposition which are posited in the novels of the Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o and the South African writer Alex ...
Anders Breidlid, 2002
7
Subalternity and Difference: Investigations from the North ...
Focusing on concepts that have been central to investigation of the history and politics of marginalized and disenfranchised populations, this book asks how discourses of ‘subalternity’ and ‘difference’ simultaneously constitute and ...
Gyanendra Pandey, 2013
8
The Endless Pursuit of Truth: Subalternity and ...
The dissertation analyses the political dimension of post-neorealist Italian film, concentrating on the representation of the subaltern by directors such as Antonio Pietrangeli, Alberto Grifi and Massimo Sarchielli, Yervant Gianikian and ...
Luca Barattoni, 2007
9
Subalternity, Antagonism, Autonomy: Constructing the ...
He reviews the works of Gramsci, Negri, Castoriadis and Lefort, and engages with the arguments made by E. P. Thompson, Spivak, Laclau and Mouffe.
Massimo Modonesi, 2013
10
Voices from the Periphery: Subalternity and Empowerment in India
This book will be useful to those in sociology, anthropology, politics, history, study of religions, minority studies, cultural studies and those interested in social development, and issues of marginality, tribes and subaltern identity.
Marine Carrin, Lidia Guzy, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUBALTERNITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term subalternity is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Pioneer or pretender?
Dolezal's problem is that she tried to pass as black having been born white and privileged, and therefore gets no brownie points for subalternity. One black critic ... «Calcutta Telegraph, Jun 15»
2
4 Reasons to Volunteer While in Grad School
We get paid to think and to use fancy words like “vernacularity,” “versimillitude,” “heteronormativity,” and “subalternity” in our daily interactions. We can make our ... «Inside Higher Ed, Jun 15»
3
'Herald' Attempts the Troubled Waters of the Colonial Narrative
... European empire while I, a white man living in the settler-colony of Canada dissects the importance of authentic subalternity. The positions the developers and ... «PopMatters, May 15»
4
Leslee Udwin's 'India's Daughter' shows you what the government …
... of the same migratory and urban working class background, she is presented in the film as working her way out of subalternity in ways that the men are not. «Firstpost, Mar 15»
5
Locating Okinawans within Hawai`i's 'multiracial paradise'
In other words, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that Ang is more concerned with subalternity, and spontaneous groupings of people in contradistinction to the ... «Japan Focus, Mar 15»
6
Teaching passive subjugation
... Enter the Dragon may have uncannily affirmed subalternity, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly may have called into question the limits of binary thinking. «Mail & Guardian Online, Jan 15»
7
Vidyasagar: The Life and Times of an Eminent Indian
... and sensibility and thrown into strange and often unforgiving circumstances (not least poverty and colonial subalternity) would it be wrong to think of trauma? «Free Press Journal, Nov 14»
8
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Bringing to light what lies on the margins or even outside the canonical narratives of history, the works of art deal with the Gramscian notion of subalternity. «Alternative Information Center, Nov 14»
9
Italy's Renzi Pledges to Pay All Arrears
He urged lawmakers to free themselves of "cultural subalternity," or inferiority to Europe, and a widespread perception that the bloc's rules are too bureaucratic. «Wall Street Journal, Feb 14»
10
Watermelons or tomatoes? Social democracy, class and the …
What made this populist-democratic and Jacobin patriotism extremely vulnerable, was the subalternity, both objective and — among the working classes ... «Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal, Jan 13»

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« EDUCALINGO. Subalternity [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/subalternity>. Apr 2024 ».
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