Which critic appropriates Marx's statement 'They cannot represent themselves; they must be represented'?
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Correct answer: A. Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Explanation
Per the key, Mohanty ('Under Western Eyes', Feminism Without Borders) on the Western feminist representation of 'Third World Women'. The line, from The Eighteenth Brumaire, is also Said's epigraph to Orientalism and central to Spivak's 'Can the Subaltern Speak?'.
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