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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.




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