Date: 	Tue, 30 Jul 1996 11:39:31 -1000
From: Richard Salvador <salvador-AT-hawaii.edu>
Subject: Re: Mudimbe




Aloha from Hawai'i,

Thank you Bruce for the timely notice of your journal.  The several
messages that discussed the extent and limits of Mudimbe were initiated by
my question regarding his book, _The Invention of Africa_.  Timothy Burke
responded by calling attention to the particular genealogy of a
eurocentric "African" invention, and stated in so many words, that this
ought to be a fundamental issue.  He stated as well, in question form, 
about what can possibly be the use of a particular genealogy that
implicates a general Eurocentered process of colonization, but is only
limited to a spatial and/or temporal space.  I, in turn, responded by
citing Mudimbe's inspiration for a critique of the Western colonial
presence in the Pacific Islands.  This latter point constitutes the extent
of my research.

My question to you Bruce regarding your journal is whether you can accept
works from as far as the Pacific Islands (and elsewhere, of course, as
interests in this list dictate) that explore the contextual experience of
the "West" in the islands, in terms of the Mudimbean genealogy and its
implications for emergent theory in particular places.

But I suspect you are familiar with Runoko Rashidi's work that explore the
African presence in the islands and Asia, and suggest that these islands
may not be as far away from the real or invented Africa temporally as well
as theoretically.  Thanks in advance.


Richard Salvador

(phd candidate)
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Dept. of Political Science
2424 Maile Way, Porteus 640
Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822
fax (808) 956-6877, phone (808) 956-8141



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