File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1998/postcolonial.9804, message 19


From: "Chris Ward" <Crbward-AT-dmn.com.au>
Subject: Re: Who is "us?" WAS: the enemy and they is us
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 19:46:01 +0800


Would it then be possible to become preoccupied with history--such that
history would preempt possibility?
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From: Terry Goldie <tgoldie-AT-YorkU.CA>
To: postcolonial-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
<postcolonial-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU>
Date: Saturday, 4 April 1998 3:06
Subject: Re: Who is "us?" WAS: the enemy and they is us


>eg. literary studies can look at anything by considering it as text
>    geography can look at anything by considering it spatially
>    history can look at anything by considering it temporally
>    feminism can look at anything by considering it as gender
>    "postcolonialism" can look at anything by considering it in terms of
>colonization.
>
>Having said all that, I think the political commitment of the field is not
>inherent to the approach but reflects the people who decide to pursue it,
>for obvious historical reasons. The same is true of feminism, of gay
>studies, and the other fields which began as the study of the relationship
>between "minority" cultures and established hegemony.
>terry
>
>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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>
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