From: ask-AT-unlinfo.unl.edu (alpana knippling)
Subject: poco lit course readings
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 18:54:19 -0500 (CDT)


David,
     Your message helps me think through some of these vexed issues in
a way exactly that the course wld be about--what is postcolonial lit. 
anyway and what does it set itself against and address. I didn't mean 
to suggest that Rushdie and Achebe would be excluded, only that these 
authors need to be read in relation to broader writing and reading 
practices. I'm searching for a larger dialogue that has to do with how
fields of inquiry get established and the kinds of genealogical 
investigations launched by Foucault among others. R & A are 
significant in their own right of course and A in particular adds an 
extra edge to do w/ English language use (Ngugi too). I feel language 
use and translation practices shd be a part of the course.
     Thanks for getting me to think in this way--Alpana



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