Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 13:21:34 -0700 From: "Marlene R. Atleo" <maratleo-AT-island.net> Subject: Re: Not White, Not Quite? >Spielberg wasn't on the Amistad, but his depiction of the events >were gut-wrenching and moving. gut-wrenching and moving is hardly the equivalent to having been there and understanding the actions etc through the eyes of the participants... I am glad Alan used this allusion because America has colonized and continues to colonize the life world through the film medium in the most incidious ways.... in the last couple of weeks psychologist make public how often they recommend movies to their patients to help them gain therapeutic insight...... Scholastic Books has a series currently that culls the 'experiences' of historical children for today's children in a series called "Dear America" that masquarade as "diaries" of historical children - promising "you will experience first hand what it was like to grow up in another time and place" ..suggesting that children "Open Their Diaries...Make History Your Own" http://www.ebsread.com/dearamerica/books/index.htm a group of us examined one particular book supposidely written from the perspective of a Native American child The Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl, Carlisle Indian School, Pennsylvania, 1880. Our review points out from a Native American perspective the lack of authenticity of this book....at http://www.oyate.com this example from children's literature demonstrate some of what we are talking about here....how colonizing this process of fictionalization is especially when still speaking for others.... The esthetic contrivance of lived experience through Hollywood is hardly post colonial....it is still pure colonialism..... >I feel that Steinbeck, Joyce, and a host of other >authors who are read by some as "non-postcolonial" can be read >as such, and by reading them in that light, we can come to a more >full understanding of postcolonialism as a whole. Steinbeck and Joyce have not/could not meta themselves in their writing from that perspective.... --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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