Reading against the grain of the text,
we have kept uncertainties at bay
by binding: can it be imagined
how this mischief conducts traffic
between? As a daughter, I sense her
hesitation between the role; I
sense her assertion of a difficult
liberty, agenda of negotiation:
But we cannot make the world fit
forever into that devoutly wished
embrace, but then what is it to teach?
*All words and phrases taken from pp.164-165, “Outside the Teaching Machine,” by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
(October 16, 2014)
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