From: TABRON-AT-BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 22:55:57 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Masculinity Frank Njubi writes: Julian: > >way to go dude! >i see you've discovered the extreme intolerance of some >of the "postcolonials" on this list. the creed here is: thou shalt not >critique the gurus esp. spivak & rushdie; whatever they say/write is >sacred esp. if it's in the holy gibberish code. you made the error of >unmasking (brilliantly) both of them and you are now paying the dues. >peace Are Spivak and Rushdie really nothing but gibberish? (I think you forgot Said, who forms the third of the holy trinity. Probably something imperialistic about the fact that it's a trinity.) I think there is a tendency for postcolonialists currently to sort of worship these writers -- on one side that seems only reasonable, since they founded a certain postcolonial sensibility, but on the other hand it seems _un_reasonable when it's pursued to the exclusion of all other thinkers in the field. I for one have found this list very interesting because it DOESN'T confine itself to those writers -- I've learned a lot about theorists that I find extremely interesting (like Mohanty) and writers I would never have otherwise been introduced to (my university only recently acquired a "postcolonial" literature specialist, and that unfortunately after my class-taking days were over.) I thought Julian raised some interesting issues (about Rushdie, anyway) but didn't think that anyone was particularly "unmasked". Is there something about Spivak I don't know? Does she really purport that she herself is the incarnation of postcolonial theory, bar all others? Meanwhile, I'm looking for discussion on Patrick White and happily skimming along. Judith Tabron Brandeis University tabron-AT-binah.cc.brandeis.edu --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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