The Subaltern Voices in Fantasia

This essay seeks to explore Fantasia as Assia Djebar's bold attempt at retracing the historical patterns of colonization, subjugation and subalternity from multiple feminine perspectives. The article provides, on one hand, an answer to certain questions about subaltern speech posed by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in her famous article “Can the Subaltern Speak?” and on the other, it also challenges Spivak's central question of whether subaltern speech is possible in post-colonial discourse.