Spivak + Gilbert/Gubar

Spivak states, "It is, rather, that, both as object of colonialist historiography and as subject of insurgency, the ideological construction of gender keeps the male dominant.  If, in the contest of colonial production, the subaltern has no history and cannot speak, the subaltern as female is even more deeply in shadow," (Spivak 804).

This line written by Spivak made me think of Gilbert and Gubar and the ideas they were giving about female literary figure.  I thought it was interesting that Spivak is giving the idea that the subaltern can be the female through a means of colonial production.  One line that I thought of was when Gilbert and Gubar writes, "a radical fear that she cannot create, that because she can never become a "precursor" the act of writing will isolate or destroy her," (Gilbert 451).  This radical fear seems to have relations with the idea of the subaltern and how fear can put a stop on a person's ability to speak.  Thus, they could become this shadow that Spivak was talking about.  Furthermore, this idea that the subaltern has no history relates with Gilbert/Gubar even more that the lack of literary history for female literary authors puts them into this mode of radical fear.