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Burning with Shame: Desire and South Asian patriarchy, from Gayatri Spivak's "Can the Subaltern Speak?" to Deepa Mehta's Fire

Gairola, R.ORCID: 0000-0002-1826-6339 (2002) Burning with Shame: Desire and South Asian patriarchy, from Gayatri Spivak's "Can the Subaltern Speak?" to Deepa Mehta's Fire. Comparative Literature, 54 (4). pp. 307-324.

Link to Published Version: https://doi.org/10.1215/-54-4-307
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Abstract

Seventeen years ago Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak published "can the Subaltern Speak?" - one of the most influential theoretical works in the field of post-colonial studies and an essay that continues to be a critical force in the evaluation of the epistemiology of history and globalized capital (hence certain terrains of ideology) in the twenty-first century.

Item Type: Journal Article
Publisher: Duke University Press
Copyright: 2002 Duke University Press
URI: http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/51973
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