EngL1401W - Spring 2007: Introduction to "Third World" Literature

I would probably write my second lit paper on the issue I touched on in my theory and art paper. The question I asked was whether one could achieve more through silence than through speech. I related Spivak’s argument that the subaltern is not heard to Fridays character in Foe. I think that Friday, in the novel, not in truth necessarily, is the subaltern character. But in the end he prevails everyone else in the novel and at the end of the book when he opens his mouth his silence is so powerful that it “passes through the the cabin, through the wreck, washing away the cliffs and shores of the island, it runs northward and southward to the ends of the earth.” Spivak claims that the subaltern cannot speak because nobody will listen and Coetzee re-created a character who through silence prevails.

I am also considering further exploring my Theory and Art topic. There were various parts of Foe that, to me, strongly correlated with Spivak's argument on the subaltern and "speech." Cruso's attitude towards language and the world outside the island, along with the actions of Susan Barton, are some of the book that exemplify this. The last four pages might come in handy too.
If I'm feeling adventurous, I might also incorporate Orientalism with Spivak to help in debating some of Croso's more colorful moments. His view on the world outside the island is fairly dark and he seems to almost resent where Barton comes from.

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