Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 12:30:34 -0500 From: Mirembe Nantongo <NANTONGO-AT-CompuServe.COM> Subject: PLC: Re: postcolonial other >>How to approach this training for a long silenced voice? [...] >And questions arise with >regard to places like Rwanda, where some analysts believe that the cause of >genocide is western intervention into what formerly was a stable social >system. Well, stable in that, before colonial administrative & security structures were put in place what one saw was periodic war (genocide, massacre?) followed by subjugation by one party of the other, until the next time. The 'stability' lay in the alternating capability of one group to subjugate the other. Deaun is right that post-colonial commentary *is* undergoing a training process. What I'm hoping that we'll eventually see is some post-colonial commentator who is able to view the experience of being colonized as simply another stage in the development of his/her nation, rather than as some catastrophic interruption that derailed a trajectory originating from, and headed seamlessly towards, perfect happiness... Mirembe Nantongo Washington, DC nantongo-AT-compuserve.com --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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