This question is based on the following resources:

• Contemporary Social Theory, Blackwell Reader, 1999. ISBN 0-631-20650-7(pbk.) See:
  • Introduction, by Anthony Elliott, p. 25. Hardcopy.
  • Seyla Benhabib, "Feminism and the Question of Postmodernism", Chapter 28, especially the Death of History on pp. 357-358.Hardcopy.
  • Definition of metanarrative.Online.
  • Glossary of Key Terms in the Work of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Online.
  • hooks, bell. "Altars of Sacrifice: Re-membering Basquiat." Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations. London: Routledge, 1994. pp. 25-37. Jean-Michel Basquiat is recognized as postcolonial. Hardcopy. But jeanne and Pat have copies.
  • African American Studies and Postcolonialism Online.

  Click on any of the letter responses for jeanne's lecture notes on that response.

  3. What is metanarrative?

• Subaltern theory is theory that deals with lived problems, not with metanarratives. By dealing with smaller problems, instead of trying to provide universal answers, we are better able to measure and record data, and to investigate the validity of the theory.