From: "Lloyd Rang" <servetus-AT-iname.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 18:59:12 -0500
Subject: Homi K. Bhabha's Writing


Y'all:

I argued in a theory paper last term that the inscrutibility of certain 
theorists has the function of protecting the metropolitian academe's 
position by giving privilege to certain academic modes of 
knowledge production, obfuscating politicized issues such that it 
appears that the academic (and only s/he) is able to navigate 
through them and creating a discourse so viscous that critiquing it 
is much like nailing proverbial jello to the proverbial wall.  

This meta-language of metropoles allows "high" postcolonial theory 
to (as Aijiz Ahmad puts it)  proceed without the need to "question 
its own determination by the conditions of its production and the 
class location of its agents."  

Or else postcolonial theory is just so difficult that it often eludes 
otherwise intelligent graduate students, profs and even its own 
authors.

You choose.

Lloyd Rang (UofGuelph)
  


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