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inversion
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See: antipode, reversal, subversion


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To understand how political biography such as a national anthem operates, we need to read the words of Guha and Spivak, two subaltern scholars of Indian descent who state that in their experiences of postcolonial contexts "any of their members in the insurgent community who chooses to continue in such subalternity is regarded as hostile towards the inversive process initiated by the struggle and hence as being on the side of the enemy" (Guha & Spivak 1988: 14).
144) A link between blackface and associations with often inversive, festive folly appears, for instance, in corn riots, which, Natalie Zemon Davis demonstrates, were led by women or men dressed as women, who, Wood-bridge argues, often wore blackface.
4) A careful examination of Native Son and the Loeb/Leopold case reveals previously unexamined parallels between the two, from which we can perceive sharp ironies that arise from Wright's powerfully inversive imagination.
 
 
 
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