ABSTRACT
Intelligibility, the context and conditions for comprehending and identifying what is being heard or viewed, is a primary focus of current discussions of spectatorship and difference. “It is not difficult,” says Chris Berry in A Bit on the Side, “to understand why hearing Suleri speak as a Pakistani would imperil&her listeners' self-perception…as the subjects of a two dimensional topography based on a dichotomy of subject and object positions____ [I]f one persists in viewing the world through the
