Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 19:02:31 +1200
From: danny-AT-gdv.org.nz (db)
Subject: Re: double/speak - cathereses


>On the contrary, for me, the term "postcolonial" means only the absence
>of the colony.

can't agree.  for me 'post-colonial' is simply 'that which follows
colonisation' .  what links various 'postcolonial theories' is precisely
(and perhaps merely) their insistence on colonisation as a reality. i
haven't read any postcolonial theory which claims that the colony no longer
exists (only perhaps that its relations are echoed differently) - but
perhaps i have not read enough.

but in response to NADEEM OMAR i have never felt that Spivak or Haraway
(who seem to be positioned as representatives of first world hybridity
theorists) fail to acknowledge that  "not all hybrid subject postiotns are
equal in power". but then they may not choose to include themselves in the
"those of us who are  breaking new theoretical grounds in p.c theory"
anyway.

regards
-- danny




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