Round 3: Tossup 14

In a speech, this thinker described suicidal resistance as “a message inscribed in the body” of terrorists. In an essay on “reading the archives,” this thinker described cartography as “worlding” the social space of a 19th-century queen. This thinker described a temporary solidarity for the sake of social action, termed “strategic (10[1])essentialism.” An essay by this (10[1])thinker that contrasts Foucault’s “rupture of the episteme” and Guha’s “politics of the people” coined the term “epistemic violence.” (10[2]-5[2])In a long translator’s (10[1])preface, (10[1]-5[1])this thinker urged readers (10[1])to remember (10[1])the “track” contained in the word “trace.” (10[2]-5[1])This thinker wrote a 1988 postcolonial essay that claims academics silence the ideas of people from the Third World. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, name this Indian thinker (10[2])who (-5[1])translated (10[1])Derrida’s Of Grammatology (10[1])and wrote “Can the Subaltern (10[1])Speak?” ■END■ (10[4]0[1])

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