Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 11:19:55 -0400 From: <ksumner-AT-bosshog.arts.uwo.ca> Subject: Australia/N America conflict May I ask what posters mean when they ask somethimg like whether Australia exists from the North American point of view? What is meant by "North America"? Why don't I know about the Hindmarsh affair? Probably for the same reasons that others on the list don't know much about local battles here (in Canada) between the Federal govt and numerous aboriginal groups: It doesn't make it into the international section of our national paper here, nor on the CBC news, etc. Our newspapers are conservative and "yet another aboriginal/govt battle" just will not make the news. I look to this group as an alternative source of news/ideas/discussion. I rarely post to the group because, for some reasons that I understand and some I don't, it makes me feel uncomfortable. Is _my_ silence in the face of the Hindmarsh discussion to be read as a colonizing force, an attempt _to silence_ the discussion? I know that posters are talking in general terms, and not about "me" necessarily, but I don't always understand those terms. Are there only two positions open here -- speak and therefore recognize the Australian voice, or keep quiet and therefore silence it? I can't accept this. re: that "good old, fundamental question for poco theorists -- who has the right to speak and ... is the speaker heard?" I hear a lot about Australian issues/concerns/events on this list -- far more Australian than Canadian content (are there fewer of us? are we more likely to be lurkers? I don't know). I find it hard to understand the lament that "we Australians" are not heard in "North America." Not only do I follow with interest postings to this list on Australian subjects and discuss with my peers the intersections and differences between native politics here and in other places (like Australia), I have been practically raised on Australian poco criticism and theory, as have my colleagues (here in south-western Ontario). Karen --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- ------------------
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