We must persistently ask what cannot be said within dominant... - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

"We must persistently ask what cannot be said within dominant frameworks."

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Truth

Scholar, Postcolonial Theorist Indian-American Born 1942 (age 84)

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