Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 01:36:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: azfar-AT-wsu.edu (Azfar Hussain)
Subject: Re: Milton and Colonialism



Dear Cristi Thaut,

More than a year ago I wrote a paper called "The Poetics and Politics of
Discourses and Counter-Discourses in _Paradise Lost_ Book XII: A
Postcolonial Reading." This paper, partly contesting Fredric Jameson's
"Religion and Ideology: A Political Reading of _Paradise Lost_," looks at
"the moments and spaces of complicities and resistances" produced within
the dominant epic space itself--a space which, as Jameson argues, also
exemplifies "ideological closures" and underwrites an "official ideology."
In that paper I also argue that Eve is doubly colonized in the
"post-lapsarian space." I'm, therefore, interested in your project and I'd
be happy to know more about it.

I'm wondering if you would be interested in looking at J. Martin Evans's
_Milton's Imperial Epic: Paradise Lost and the Discourse of Colonialism_
(Ithaca:  Cornell UP, 1996). Thanks.

Azfar Hussain
Department of English
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-5020
Phones: 509-332-0399 (H)
        509-335-4081 (W)
E-mail: azfar-AT-wsu.edu




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