Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 13:38:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Andrew Irvine <andrewoz-AT-bu.edu>
Subject: Re: Pedantic Postcolonial Point (fwd)


I quite agree with your agnostic conclusion, Terry. It's compounded for 
me in that I'm an Australian studying in the States, interacting with 
Puerto Ricans on a regular basis (outside the teaching machine), and 
trying to work out where my identification is; obviously, I suppose, tere 
are parallels with dominant and subaltern streams of the society, which 
is why I'm particularly interested in the use of the paradigm of 
mestizaje - racial and cultural mixing - by Latino thinkers. It seems 
like a farewell to essentialism that has genuine liberative potential,

Andrew Irvine

On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Terry Goldie wrote:

> 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
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