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Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 18:12:43 +0100
From: Ato Quayson <laq10-AT-cus.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Postcolonial tool box


Dear Robert,

As an opening to questions of comparative frameworks in ethnography and
literature, I  suggest you take a look at Marilyn Strathern's *Partial
Connections* (Rowman and Littlefield, 1991).  Her five page preface is
particularly interesting as a theoretical exploration of some issues involved.
 The rest of the book is also good as an overview of the literary tendency  in
contemporary anthropology.  I am sure you will find ideas there to take across
into postcolonial studies.

Good luck.

Ato

Robert Davies wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I have to justify my use of postcolonial criticism as a perspective for my
> textual analysis of a high school English curriculum guide. Since this has
> never been done before at my university, my justification for using
> postcolonial theory must be very convincing.
> 
> My question is this: if ethnographic research methods include
> participant-observation, interviewing, the use of written sources, and the
> analysis or collection of nonwritten sources; and if conceptual analysis
> uses examples and contrasts, and analogies; then, what techniques/methods
> are used in the postcolonial analysis of texts?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any information you might be able to provide.
> 
> Bob Davies
> 
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Dr Ato Quayson
Lecturer in English  and Fellow
Pembroke College
University of Cambridge
Cambridge CB2 1RF
UK

Tel: +44 (0)1223 338145/334396
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