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

R. Gairola

doi:10.1215/-54-4-307

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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

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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

R. Gairola

Comparative Literature, Vol.54(4), pp.307-324

2002

DOI: 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.

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Title: Burning with Shame: Desire and South Asian patriarchy, from Gayatri Spivak's "Can the Subaltern Speak?" to Deepa Mehta's Fire
Authors/Creators: R. Gairola (Author/Creator)
Publication Details: Comparative Literature, Vol.54(4), pp.307-324
Publisher: Duke University Press
Identifiers: 991005544194207891
Murdoch Affiliation: Murdoch University
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

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