From: "PK Miller" <pkmiller20-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Is the US postcolonial?
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1998 13:27:11 PDT





>Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 11:34:07 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Patricia E Carey <pec-AT-acsu.buffalo.edu>
>To: postcolonial-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
>Subject: Is the US postcolonial?
>Reply-To: postcolonial-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
>
>Unfortunately, I'm unable to follow this thread consistently due to
>time constraints, but this issue of the US as postcolonial interests
>me.  I would hope that anyone suggsting the US as a postcolonial
>nation is aware of the complexities behind such a claim.  It's 
important I
>think to look at the ways in which the US
>is or is not postcolonial.  Certainly it is neo-colonial.  And it must 
be
>distinguished from truly postcolonial nations as a settler colony, to
>use the term ascribed to it under the auspices of Commonwealth STudies,
>guilty of reinscribing its master's colonial practices. 
>But the US has consistently promoted itself as postcolonial since the
>American Revolution.  It promoted itself very much as a kind of
>postcolonial brother to Latin
>American nations at the turn of the century when it was pushing its
>Pan-American agenda.  So we need to recognize the hegemonic intent of
>that promotion, and we should also be deconstructing it.  Does that 
make
>sense?
>
>Pat
>end
>
>_______________________________________________________________________________
>Patricia E. Carey				SUNY at Buffalo
>Graduate Assistant, Undergraduate College       220 Talbert Hall
>Ph.D. Student, American Studies			1010 Clemens Hall
>email: pec-AT-acsu.buffalo.edu                     Amherst, NY 14260
>
>
>On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Richard Knox wrote:
>
>> How can we possibly consider the US as PostColonial? The colonizers 
are
>> still here. They have thrown over the control of their English king,
>> instituted their own government, stolen our land, created a Bureau of
>> Indian Affairs to keep us out of the way. Unlike the French and 
Spanish
>> who intermarried, they killed us whenever possible (The only good 
Indian
>> is a dead Indian). What in the world  are you talking about?
>> 
>> 
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