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

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