Subject: Re: postcolonial-digest V1 #84
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 08:41:20 -0400 (EDT)


Fascinating discussion re. LIKE WATER TO CHOCOLATE, and even more 
fascinating the attempts to locate gender in the disruptions forged by 
the colonialist project.  I am sure that most of the points made here, 
cocnerning race and women's relationships with one another (mainly), are 
not particular to the condition of the colonized--at least the discussion 
has not taken that turn yet that would enable us to consider this author, 
this character and text, without presumptions of an essential race of 
gender identity---and, of course, without forgetting that all of this is 
mediated by patriarchy, whether one is discussing sexual practice, 
familial tension, or you-name-it.  So, I am surprised that this was not a 
more prevalent given in the exchange concerning LWTC.  

Albert Memi has some not terribly psychoanalytic things to say in THE 
COLONIZER AND THE COLONIZED about the colonized's altered subjectivity in 
relation to the PROCESS of colonization (ditto the colonizer) which goes 
with what I am pointing to in my statement above.

Am thinking of initiating a discussion re. WOMAN, NATIVE, OTHER by 
Minh-Ha.  Anyone interested?
Rita S. Kranidis
mkranidi-AT-runet.edu   


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