File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postco_1995/postco_Mar.95, message 30


From: dhoffman-AT-MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: the spivak/ahmad/dirlik debate 
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 1995 13:28:45 EST


In re: Bhabha's framing of agency.  My understanding is that the theorists are not seeking ways to "give" or confer agency to people.  Instead, they are trying to find spaces, identities, IDEAS by which people can take on, produce agency for themselves.  I agree that the language of the lit. crit theorists does not make this point all that clear.  it is enormously ironic how language usag (and vernaculars) can be impediments to seeing connections between theory and practice.

david kyuman kim, harvard divinity school


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