Part 1. Text -- "Can the Subaltern Speak?" revised edition, from the "History" chapter of Critique of Postcolonial Reason / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- Part 2 Contexts and Trajectories -- Reflections on "Can the Subaltern Speak?" Subaltern Studies after Spivak / Partha Chatterjee -- Postcolonial Studies: Now That's History / Ritu Birla -- The Ethical Affirmation of Human Rights: Gayatri Spivak's Intervention / Drucilla Cornell -- Part 3 Speaking of (Not) Hearing -- Death and the Subaltern / Rajeswawri Sunder Rajan -- Between Speaking and Dying: Some Imperatives in the Emergence of the Subaltern in the Context of U.S. Slavery / Abdul JanMohamed -- Subalterns at War: First World War colonial forces and the politics of the Imperial War Graves Commission / Michele Barrett -- Part 4 Contemporaneities and Possible Futures: (Not) Speaking and Hearing -- Biopower and the New International Division of Reproductive Labor / Pheng Cheah -- Moving from Subalternity: Indigenous Women in Guatemala and Mexico / Jean Franco -- Part 5 In Response -- In Response: Looking Back, Looking Forward / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- Appendix: Can the subaltern speak? Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, from Marxixm and the interpretation of history.