With reference to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s essay ‘Can the subaltern speak?’
The term ‘subaltern’ designates the populations which are socially, politically, and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure of the colony and of the colonial homeland.
Etching: Belegering van Nicosia door het Ottomaanse leger, 1570, by Jan Luyken, 1699 at Rijkmuseum, Netherlands.
(c) Postcolony of Cyprus









