From: FRAGANO S LEDGISTER <f.ledgis-AT-morehead-st.edu>
Subject: Re: Pedantic Postcolonial Point
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 96 7:04:23 EST


> 
> On Wed, 20 Nov 1996 Rndmtn-AT-aol.com wrote:
> 
> lit.  i have seen naipaul's books in an eng program (the one i'm
> in) but if it weren't for the global hegemony that resulted from the
> british imperial project, he might have had the chance to enrich his own
> language, rather than the language of his historic oppressor.  this is one


Just a point. Naipaul is a _Trinidadian_, his 'own language' is a creole 
of English (and he has written in it, you should read _Miguel Street_).


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