subaltern agency

is a form of negotiation which attempts to interrogate and rearticulate the 'interest' of society that marginalizes its interests.

As such, Baba provides a contemporary illustration of agency. He refers to subaltern agency as a form of 'negotiation ' (1994: 25) that is helpful for grasping the complexity of identities formation, and in focusing on the possibility of the agency of the colonised. . . . Bhabha (1999) examines subaltern agency as an 'attempt to interrogate and rearticulate the 'interest' of society that marginalizes its interests' (p. 206).

subaltern agency, n.Definitions

subaltern agency