Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's 1988 essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?" has been cited, invoked, imitated, and critiqued. In these phenomenal essays, eight scholars take stock of this response. In an afterword, Spivak herself looks at the interpretations of her essays and its future incarnations, while specifying some of the questions and histories secreted in the original and revised versions of "Can the Subltern Speak?" - both of which are reprinted in this book.