From: NADEEM OMAR <AJXNOT-AT-ccn4.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 23:09:53 GMT0BST Subject: Re: testing water Seems that people are intersted and one can plunge to swim or sink. To open up the problematic, in what ways an academic post colonial critic can speak about post/neo-colonialism. To be specific, lets refer to Edward Said (of Orientalism), Homi K Bhaba(of Location of Culures, henceforth LOC ) and GC Spivak ( of Post Colonial Critic & The Other worlds, hf.PCC & TOW).[these limits are not to restrict the scope of discussion but to express my breadth of information].She can talk in Oppositional or in Ambivalent terms. She can either trace her geneology to Focault/Nietsche or to Derrida/Lacan. But can she ever inscribe her geneology outside the space of First World Theory?? No doubt Bhaba (ref: Ist chapter, LOC) and Spivak (ref:post colonial critic in PC) the space which post colonial critic occupies is legitimized/defended/justified on the basis of very discourse on Cultural Differences. At that level this question cann't be asked. Having said that should we drop the question or try some ways by dipping ourselves deep into the text in order to put the question legitimately. I don't want to prempt the answer, & leaves the floor open for the discussion. N.Omar School Of Critical Theory. --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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