‘I Have a Voice’: speech, silence and the rehabilitation of empire.
This article grapples with the performativity of speech as a crucial site through which empire brings into being that which it names. I offer a critique of reading (and rehabilitating) empire as a mild and benign force in conjunction with the popularity of the filmThe King’s Speech(2010) which, I ar...
| Publicado en: | Postcolonial Studies Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 67 - 85 |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Artículo |
| Publicado: |
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2015
|
| Materias: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |
| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=109075376&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 109075376 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 13688790 56Z jtl: Postcolonial Studies issn: 13688790 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Mar2015 vid: 18 iid: 1 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 109075376 10.1080/13688790.2015.1050976 ppf: 67 ppct: 18 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 170KB tig: atl: ‘I Have a Voice’: speech, silence and the rehabilitation of empire. aug: au: Shahani, Nishant su: Performative (Philosophy) Speech Politics in motion pictures Historiography King's Speech, The (Film) sug: subj: Performative (Philosophy) Speech Politics in motion pictures Historiography King's Speech, The (Film) ab: This article grapples with the performativity of speech as a crucial site through which empire brings into being that which it names. I offer a critique of reading (and rehabilitating) empire as a mild and benign force in conjunction with the popularity of the filmThe King’s Speech(2010) which, I argue, attaches a humanized and redeemed face to the violence of empire. In my analysis, I suggest that a film that is ostensibly about the triumph of the speech-act could be read more productively as a text about the silence of empire. Drawing on queer and disability rights critiques of the politics of rehabilitation, I argue that in attempting to contain the stigma of stuttering, the film implicitly rehabilitates the politics of empire for a new millennium. I read the film in conjunction with certain strands of colonial historiography that are invested in recuperating the colonial encounter and refashioning it as a potentially egalitarian and mutually beneficial force, implicitly rejecting the insights of postcolonial critique. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Postcolonial Studies is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Postcolonial Studies holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2015 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
|---|