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The Rani’s narrative of emergence can lie only within the archive installed by the Company officials, for in the act of sati, she is constituted between ‘patriarchal subject-formation and imperialist objectconstitution’ (Spivak 1984: 144). As Spivak writes, ‘Within the two contending versions of freedom, the constitution of the female subject in life was thoroughly undermined’ (Spivak 1984: 145). Spivak’s error lies in neglecting the site of protest in her effort to warn against the dangers of partial representation.
3 As less and less labour is required in the processes of production, the nation-state undergoes the shift from an industrial to an informational economy. Although labour unions are not altogether unimportant in terms of public services, they are hardly likely to be considered integral to any collective resistance movement which might arise among workers owing to the existence of transnational enterprises. 4 What the Communist Manifesto Sethi T01350 01 text 35 23/02/2011 11:24 36 THE POLITICS OF postcolonialism claimed about the spread of capitalism more than a hundred years ago is just as relevant today: ‘The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe.
The nation-state may be just as necessary now as it was in the days of the earlier decolonization struggles, but its interaction with the forces of globalization has permitted a post-national thinking beyond centre-periphery models into a heretofore uncharted space without peoples, without ‘local’ culture, without even the conflicting claims of homeland and diaspora. The response of formerly colonized societies to the political and cultural authority of Europe, and now of the US, may no longer be seen within the binary opposition of master and slave, but rather as an ambiguous terrain marked by the recovery and resilience of indigenous societies that has changed the complexion of the nation-state.
