ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on critical feminist frameworks and insights to conduct class analyses that provide insight into defining how southern subaltern groups of women conceive, produce and consume their own voices. It examines the art and science of speaking by subaltern groups within the context of the south. The chapter also examines how Fanon and Djebar re-insert agency and subjectivity into the identity of the 'docile' Algerian woman as a case of a subaltern group. It also focuses on how Spivak and Djebar deconstruct the case of individually oppressed women who use their bodies to undermine structural violence. The chapter then explores pedagogical practices in relation to the adult literacy programme in a southern village as a way of showing the challenges and opportunities of conscientizing and empowering an oppressed group. It describes the active participation and the involvement of local people in a development school in a rural village in Malawi.
