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? -----Original Message----- 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 > > > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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