ABSTRACT
This chapter reveals the ways in which the intersection of class-identity with gender and nation is latent in Gramsci's and Foucault's writings and why it is crucial to consider it more explicitly today. The discussion seeks to make visible the matrices in which this dialectic of subalternity is lodged, namely, those of time and history. The chapter surveys the Western European trajectory of thinking about time and history in and against which Antonio Gramsci and the Michel Foucault write. It is evident in the chapter that the word 'history' not only begins the treatise but also continues to prevail as the operative word and primary focus. The history of subaltern groups is adjacent to this narrative and consigned to time and eternal, abstract, that unchanging, un-linear, outside the material structure. Hegemonic history itself is not intrinsically coherent but presents a 'functionalist coherence or formal systematization'.
