Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:33:49 -0800
Subject: Conservative post-colonial studies?


A graduate student of mine asks whether it is possible to do
self-consciously politically conservative post-colonial studies, or
whether, by definition, the whole field is the preserve of leftists. He
refers here not to scholars within the field who are merely traditionalists
considered insufficiently political (say, old-fashioned commonwealth
studies types), but to people who articulate a conservative "take" on
postcolonialism--say, development theory types who advocate market
capitalism as a solution to the problems of "underdevelopment," or
missionary-oriented postcolonial studies.

No polemics please; I'm just looking for leads to any organized academic
study of such issues to pass on to him.

I stumbled across a very interesting conservative cultural studies site
once (the amusing term "late socialism" led me there, I think), but I've
never been able to find it again.

Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-5020
brians-AT-wsu.edu
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians




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