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How to use subaltern in a sentence

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And they were accused of adopting the dominant perceptions about subaltern groups, such as women and racial minorities.
The British bourgeoisie is not subaltern to an effete but tenacious aristocracy.
I am interested in being a good enough humanities teacher in order to be a conduit between subaltern children and their subaltern teachers.
And once the colonial powers had established their dominance, most of them settled for a subaltern role which left their local hegemony intact.
The Bhakti-Sufi movement was another major pan-Indian articulation of this stream of subaltern dissent.
A subaltern and a sergeant were told off to supervise each platoon, any spare officers taking up positions in the rear of the battalion line.
Many of the volumes draw inspiration from the so-called subaltern approach, which generally focuses on history from the bottom up.
One was, once again, the callow young subaltern, looking for somewhere to shave.
As a young subaltern in the Royal Tank Regiment he was unafraid to put it to use.
In more specific terms, the subaltern woman can now locate her agency in film and televisual programming in her native nation-state.
How can we make sense of such drastic variations of a subaltern woman's identity with the invaluable preciousness of a human life at stake?
Robert's apparent movement away from his subaltern roots, however, is tempered by his conscious choice to identify as African American.
Her work is a model for scholars attempting to understand the political discourse and social imaginaries of subaltern communities of all kinds.
A new type of human being was rising up from its subaltern feudal origins and making its demands known.
The type of hazardous substances in electrical and electronic products has been a rather subaltern problem of industrial production for decades.
It approved the writing-off of the debts of seventeen officers including one of thirteen rupees owed by Winston Churchill, then a young cavalry subaltern.
They also represented the educated middle class Indian voice, generally ignored by the postcolonial critics who tend to project the colonial subject as subaltern and silent.
Kennedy seems to be suggesting that not only is the lack of a unified self a human condition, but it is also a subaltern condition, aggravated by racial animosity.
Although local elites are given agency and demonstrate a degree of control in the tourist discourse, subaltern locals involved in the tourist trade remain compliant.
It should envision empowerment of all, the black nations of Africa, the underdogs of South Asia, the Dalits of India, the subaltern classes of the Latin and North America.
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Examples from Classical Literature
With p. 109him was another subaltern, one of the Hundred and ninety-eighth.
So spake the brave young subaltern, knowing full well that he is to be demobbed to-day.
A subaltern, with whom I had been at a divisional School, asked how far we had got.
A field officer was no more than a captain, and a captain no more than a subaltern.
The subaltern had shot a tiger on a tea garden, but had hardly ever gone into the jungle.
Outside of his simple duties of routine he was just an unshaped subaltern, with eyes sealed as yet to war's practical teachings.
His subaltern, Bacon, had been the first to pass the gap, and had been killed on emerging.
It was the subaltern standard-bearer, who had been shot through the left lung.
And Captain buxton winked at the other subaltern and felt that he had said a good thing.
A subaltern is a commissioned officer in the army, under the rank of captain.
Their ons were only the subaltern gods, created by the great Being.
The pleasant, amiable manner of the subaltern underwent a quick change.
I was lunching with William next day, and I told him about the subaltern.
He entreats Blount, who is his subaltern, to shoulder the blame.
She stood up and sneered at the Senior Subaltern for a cur, and abused the Major and the Colonel and all the rest.
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