Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 11:35:10 -0500 (CDT)
From: Hamid Naficy <naficy-AT-ruf.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: shit etc.


Alan Dundes, the UC Berkeley folklorist, wrote a very long artilce about 
decade or so back in the Journal of Psychoanalytic Anthropology on the 
German preoccupation with shit, which he later issued as a book.  I am 
afraid I cannot get my hands on the exact citation at the moment. 
Although although the piece does not deal with postcolonial issues, it 
contains a wealth of ideas that might be useful to you.
--Hamid Naficy
Media Studies, Rice University


On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Joshua Esty wrote:

> 
> To Arindam Dutta (and David Rathbun)
> 
> I have been working on a project called 'excremental postcolonialism' that
> I organize around a reading of Armah's *Beautyful Ones*.  It's mostly on
> African (and, in a speculative postcolonial connection, Irish) texts, so I
> don't have too many thoughts on S. Asian leads.  But one possibility is
> Naipaul's *Area of Darkess*. 
> 
> I'm writing partly in response to a piece in *Critical Inquiry* called
> "Excremental colonialism" from a few issues back;  you might want to check
> it out -- it's very interesting, mostly historical and epidemiological.
> 
> Anyway, Arindam, I'd be interested to hear how your research unfolds and
> to exchange other ideas, esp.  relevant theoretical stuff.  Though perhaps
> we should move off the list in order not to exhaust everyone with piss,
> blood, shit etc.  (my email below)
> 
> Jed Esty
> English Department
> Harvard University
> 8 Prescott Street #3
> Cambridge, MA  02138
> esty-AT-fas.harvard.edu
> 
> 
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