Stun the norm, interpellate the norm, terrify the norm

towards other ways of capturing and dismantling whiteness as a normative power from the field of language

Abstract

“Linguistic injury appears to be the effect not only of the words by which one is addressed but the mode of address itself, a mode—a disposition or conventional bearing—that interpellates and constitutes a subject” is what Judith Butler (1997) says. In other words, the insult, the linguistic injury, however hateful and vile it may be, is capable of constituting the subject in the field of language through interpellation contradicting their own intention of killing the deviant subjects. Often the insult creates deviant subjects with the voices vibrations, with the injurious callings. Now, if the meaning of everything that is said can only be conceived because there are pauses marking the durations and the discursive rhythm, then would it be in the silences Where found is the true meaning of things? The whiteness while a power’s institution has privileges place in the Society too many times because of her neutrality in the discourse or her invisibility in the official narratives, then would it be in the silence that she is hidden? What happens when interpelate we the silence and the invisible subjects?