File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1997/97-04-17.225, message 51


Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 14:47:52
From: Maggie Nolan <murray-AT-cableinet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: shit, piss, blood


There's an interesting shit reference, if I remember rightly (I'm really
hoping this isn't going to be a revealing Freudian slip) in Kundera's the
Unbearable Lightness of Being, with regards to the Russian occupation of
the then Czechoslovakia.  Hope it helps, maggie.

At 19:35 06/04/97 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Hi!
>
>I'm looking for accounts of the abject as they were transformed under
>colonialism, specifically shit and urine, but also menstruation. If any of
>you have any kind of references for the same, with regard to colonialism
>in general, as well as specifically with regard to South Asia,  please let
>me know. This includes any kind of records, archives, novels, short
>stories, films, etc. etc.
>
>Love
>Arindam
>
>
>
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