From: kualapai-AT-unlgrad1.unl.edu (lydia k kualapai)
Subject: Re: Immigrant Literature
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 23:07:22 -0500 (CDT)


In addition to Chicana(o) writers, Native American writers, and 
African American writers, please consider Native Hawaiian writers and 
their texts in this discussion.

Lydia Kualapai 

On 16 August 1996, Ernest Stromberg wrote:
> 
> I am not sure how one can 
> avoid recognizing how issues of colonization and efforts at 
> "decolonization" intersect with many of the texts by Chicana(o) writers, 
> Native American writers, and African American writers.  I don't mean to 
> disregard how "post-colonial" issues may relate to other ethnic or 
> immigrant literatures, but when you consider that Native American and 
> Chicano(a) peoples were literally colonized and how the history of 
> enslavement of African peoples to serve in the US fit within the 
> outlines  of colonial and imperial policies why wouldn't you consider 
> texts emerging from these histories within the framework of post-colonial 
> studies?
> 
> On the other hand, if Sharpe is targeting folks like Lawerence Buell who 
> want to argue that all American literature is "post-colonial" because of 
> the break from Britain,I would be more interested in her arguemet.  
> Obviously, I need to read the article/
> 
> Ernie 
>


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