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AUDIBILITY REGAINED: THE SUBALTERN'S ECHOES IN VERONICA ROTHS DIVERGENT

Mostafa A. S. Rosheed Asst. Prof. Dr. Amer Rasool Mahdi

Volume: 9 Issue: 1 2019

Abstract:

This paper aims at revisiting Spivak’s article “Can the Subaltern Speak?” which investigates the audibility of the doubly oppressed people under the postcolonial domination. The paper brings into discussion the recent work of Veronica Roth, the trilogy Divergent that comprises Divergent (2011), Insurgent (2012) and Allegiant (2013). The paper highlights the non- and ill-representation of the subaltern within the trilogy in order to investigate the possibility of the audibility of the subaltern and conclude whether or not those subaltern can speak when they have the chance to, focusing on the development in Spivak’s assumption a propose of Roth’s fiction.

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