Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 11:38:33 -0500 (EST)
From: Judith Tabron <tabron-AT-BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU>
Subject: Re: Fwd.  (Who are the most generous and stingiest people in the


What is the point of denying that there is some category of people called
"Americans" and yet insisting that there is some category of nations or
peoples called "The Third World"?  How can we discuss what constitutes aid
to the Third World without discussing what constitutes the (in your
sentence, elided) giver of the aid? 

I myself would like to hear more about "world literatures in English" on
this list and less about the political situation in the Middle East, but I
can't think of any good reason why that isn't pertinent to the topic
"postcolonial" (I can think of several as to why it isn't pertinent to the
topic of postcolonial _literature_, but this list is always so far-ranging
anyway...)

Judith Tabron
Brandeis University

On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Donna Jones wrote:

> 
> And the purpose of such banal generalization based on these 'entities'
> America and Britain is? Anyone ever thought that American 'generosity' of
> the past may have had something to do with that little thing called the
> Cold War and not some fast held national characteristic. What on earth is
> an 'American' anyway and need they have uniform customs of giving. Lets nip
> this line in the bud, away with futile national characteristics and on with
> a discussion of what constitutes 'aid' and assistance in the Third World.
> 
> djones
> 
> 
> Donna Jones
> 22 McCosh Hall
> Department of English
> Princeton University
> Princeton, NJ 08544
> (609) 258-4066
> e-mail: dvjones-AT-princeton.edu
> 
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