File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1996/96-12-06.070, message 154


Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 09:01:49 -0500 ()
From: Terry Goldie <tgoldie-AT-YorkU.CA>
Subject: Re: Pedantic Postcolonial Point (fwd)


Re: indigenous peoples in poco classes.  The American situation is of
course rather different but the usual assumption in Canada is that all
Canadian literature is "postcolonial," whatever that is, but that it is
not on poco courses because it is in Canadian courses.  On the other
hand, until very recently most Canlit courses had no Native component,
which was of course ridiculous.  When I was at a poco conference in
Australia once there was a conference at which the assumption was that
Aboriginal writers were "postcolonial" but that non-indigenous writers
were not.  I honestly don't know who should be more offended.

Terry Goldie
English Department
York University
North York, Ontario
Canada
M3J 1P3
voice: 416-604-3670
fax: 416-736-5412
email: tgoldie-AT-yorku.ca



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