当代美国著名文化和文学批评家斯皮瓦克修正并补充了由葛兰西提出,并由印度庶民研究小组所继承发展的“属下”理论。斯皮瓦克的创新中很重要的一点就是将该理论与女性主义相结合,深入探讨了被以往研究者所忽略的殖民地妇女的群体意识和地位问题。她发现,殖民地妇女作为一个特殊的群体,不但遭受着殖民者霸权文化的压迫,而且也经历着本土父 Spivak, a contemporary American cultural and literary critic, amends and supplements the theory of “subordinates” proposed by Gramsci and inherited and developed by the Indian Commonwealth Research Group. It is very important for Spivak’s innovation to combine this theory with feminism to probe deeply into the group awareness and status of colonial women, neglected by past researchers. She found that colonial women, as a special group, not only suffered the oppression of the colonialist hegemony but also experienced the indigenous father