Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 14:09:17 -0400 From: Purna Chowdhury <pchowdhu-AT-chat.carleton.ca> Subject: Re: postcolonial-digest V2 #1013 postcolonial-digest wrote: > > postcolonial-digest Thursday, July 15 1999 Volume 02 : Number 1013 > > In this issue: > =============> > JennSp2-AT-aol.com Re: postcolonial-digest V2 #1012 > Mary Keller RE: utopia and postcolonialism > LEAHYD-AT-vax2.concordia Responses to English Studies > "Shamira Meghani" [none] > Kenji Kajiya Native American reservations > Guavamoon9-AT-aol.com Re: Native American reservations > "Marlene R. Atleo" Re: Native American reservations > Daniel Cardenas Capital > adele wessell postcolonial U.S.? > Sarah McKibben postcolonial U.S.? > Jon Stratton Re: postcolonial U.S.? > Lara D. Nielsen Re: postcolonial U.S.? > Lavina Shankar Re: postcolonial U.S.? > Liam Connell Re: postcolonial U.S.? > "Keijiro Suga" Fanon biography > Shashwati Talukdar Images > Shashwati Talukdar Asian American Cinema > Ken MacDonald Re: Asian American Cinema > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 07:29:20 EDT > From: JennSp2-AT-aol.com > Subject: Re: postcolonial-digest V2 #1012 > > In a message dated 7/11/99 7:45:46 PM, > owner-postcolonial-digest-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu writes: > > << Any idea who talks about/writes about *utopia* and *postcolonialism* -- or > utopia via recent marxist (or postmarxist) analysis? I'm mostly drawing a > blank on this one, except for Laclau and A. Nandy. Thoughts? Guesses? > > Any ideas (on- or off-list) gratefully received. > > > From:pchowdhu-AT-chat.carleton.ca >Dated:15 July 1999 2:00 >Subject:Utopia and Postcolonialism > > Dear Jennifer,Iwould like to have the name of the Publishing House that published Arun Mukherji's book. Purna Chowdhury. > ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:23:12 -0400 (EDT) > From: LEAHYD-AT-vax2.concordia.ca > Subject: Responses to English Studies > > Dear Jill, > > Nobody's mentioned it so far, so I will. There's Ngugi's old chestnut in > HOMECOMING and analogous pieces in subsequent texts (like BARREL of a PEN). > And it's been too long for me to recall in any detail, but I believe > there's some interesting representations of the colonialism of English > lit. in Lamming's IN THE CASTLE OF MY SKIN. Cheikah Anta Diop's work > also addresses said question, as do parts of Kwame Anthony Appiah's IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE. > > Take care, > > David Leahy > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 20:57:15 +0100 > From: "Shamira Meghani" <bluejam-AT-onet.co.uk> > Subject: [none] > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > - ------=_NextPart_000_0008_01BECCA9.1ECAD060 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > I have a colleague who is travelling to East Africa in a few weeks and > would like to know of any travelogues, fiction etc pertaining to the > area, especially Madagacscar and Tanzania > > By the way did anyone catch Henry Louis Gates' I hour special on East > Africa on the BBC at the weekend? He visited the big/historically > significant Swahili towns and cities along the coast. It was quite > surprising how many people claimed Arab heritage rather than their > African heritage....... > > If anyone can help with the fiction/non-fiction I'd appreciate it - > thanx in advance! > > Shamira > > - ------=_NextPart_000_0008_01BECCA9.1ECAD060 > Content-Type: text/html; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> > <HTML> > <HEAD> > > <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 > http-equiv=Content-Type> > <META content='"MSHTML 4.72.2106.6"' name=GENERATOR> > </HEAD> > <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> > <DIV><FONT size=2>I have a colleague who is travelling to East Africa > in a few > weeks and would like to know of any travelogues, fiction etc > pertaining to > the area, especially Madagacscar and Tanzania</FONT></DIV> > <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> > <DIV><FONT size=2>By the way did anyone catch Henry Louis Gates' I > hour special > on East Africa on the BBC at the weekend? He visited the > big/historically > significant Swahili towns and cities along the coast. It was quite > surprising > how many people claimed Arab heritage rather than their African > heritage.......</FONT></DIV> > <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> > <DIV><FONT size=2>If anyone can help with the fiction/non-fiction I'd > appreciate > it - thanx in advance!</FONT></DIV> > <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> > <DIV><FONT size=2>Shamira</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> > > - ------=_NextPart_000_0008_01BECCA9.1ECAD060-- > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 21:02:15 -0400 > From: kk392-AT-is9.nyu.edu (Kenji Kajiya) > Subject: Native American reservations > > A friend of mine, who is a Japanese scholar of Asian human rights, is stayin > g in New York. He would like to go to one of the Native American reservatio > ns for his comparative studies of human rights. Please let me know where he > can get necessary information, including how to get there (books, institutio > ns, etc.). > > Kenji Kajiya > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 23:00:15 EDT > From: Guavamoon9-AT-aol.com > Subject: Re: Native American reservations > > Hello. > > You may want to contact the American Indian Community House > > 404 Lafayette St. 2nd floor > NY NY 10003 > (212) 598 - 0100 > fax (212) 598 - 4909 > > They should be very helpful. > > Zahera > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 08:58:30 -0700 > From: "Marlene R. Atleo" <maratleo-AT-island.net> > Subject: Re: Native American reservations > > OR > post your request to: > "H-AMINDIAN (Andrea Pugsley and Melissa Dyea)" > <amind-AT-h-net2.h-net.msu.edu> > which has a wide circulation among Native American scholars and scholars of > things Native American.... > > At 11:00 PM 7/12/99 EDT, you wrote: > >Hello. > > > >You may want to contact the American Indian Community House > > > >404 Lafayette St. 2nd floor > >NY NY 10003 > >(212) 598 - 0100 > >fax (212) 598 - 4909 > > > >They should be very helpful. > > > >Zahera > > > > > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > > > > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 11:33:44 -0600 (MDT) > From: Daniel Cardenas <dcardena-AT-sipi.bia.edu> > Subject: Capital > > Hello, > > A helpful address with an etext of Capital is > http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/index.htm > > I hope that this helps > > Daniel Cardenas > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 09:45:36 +1000 > From: adele wessell <awessell-AT-scu.edu.au> > Subject: postcolonial U.S.? > > Mary Keller's recommendation of Toni Morrison's *Paradise* raises the > question again about why postcolonial theory is rarely applied to the U.S. > or why the postcolonial nature of US, is also not generally recognised. > (>"Toni Morrison's Paradise is a novel set in the mid-West U.S.A. but > >nevertheless dealing with many of the issues that postcolonial theory will > >also address--" ). While most of the list members are living in the U.S., > >comments rarely address readings/discussions about the United States. This > >is perhaps because of the emergence of the US as a world power, its > >consequent position as a centre of global cultural production and > >circulation, which generates its own conditions of 'specialness', whether > >real or imagined. The complicit nature of postcolonialism in the US may be > >another obstacle - being a colonial power itself. > > Peter Hulme's call for the inclusion of the United States in postcolonial > studies acknowledged the differences in cultural politics between > postcolonial societies ("Including America" *Ariel* no. 26, 1995, pp. > 117-123). And there seems to be need for more debate about this issue. > > I welcome other people's comments about this, or suggestions for further > reading. > > regards, adele wessell > > >Mary Maga's book on Jonestown takes a very interesting look at the effort to > >build a utopian community and the way that race and racism in the U.S. led > >the Jonestown community to escape to an African setting. > > > >Toni Morrison's Paradise is a novel set in the mid-West U.S.A. but > >nevertheless dealing with many of the issues that postcolonial theory will > >also address--identity, belonging, reactions, internal vs. external > >violence, authenticity, the desire to build a utopia and with that the need > >to purge perceived internal threats to perfection. > > > >Mary Keller > > > > > > > > > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > - - > adele wessell > school of humanities, media and cultural studies > southern cross university > po box 157 > lismore 2480 > australia > > telephone: 61 2 6620 3946 > fax: 61 2 6622 1683 > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 21:53:54 -0400 (EDT) > From: Sarah McKibben <sem14-AT-cornell.edu> > Subject: postcolonial U.S.? > > Adele and List, > > These are interesting questions you've raised. When you discuss the > postcoloniality of the U.S., do you mean settler colonialism? Or do you > refer (also?) to internal colonialism (a la Bob Blauner, etc)? I understand > the U.S. to be a settler colony founded on expropriation and violence, but > also a place with its own internal structures of inequality which relate in > complex ways to global power relations, rendering the application of > 'postcolonial' theory within the U.S. of potentially illuminating import, > though not without the need for precision, specificity, and, as always, > modification to suit local circumstances/texts/periods. There are those who > have cited the growing use of 'postcolonial' in all sorts of contexts as an > index of the failure to risk naming racism and sexism, among other things, > any longer. Indeed, in colonial or decolonizing situations, postcolonial as > a term has been derided as (at least) premature if not deluded. > > Under the descriptor of settler colonialism I have seen listed: the U.S., > Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Israel, South Africa, and other > states. I wonder what people have to say about these designations and about > the terminology they have found useful. What understanding of economics and > history underpins such terminology? > > I appreciate the vivid sense of 'being colonized' expressed by Canadian > writers/critics (L. Hutcheon in _PMLA_ springs to mind, among others) > living with 'the giant on our doorstep.' Yet I have trouble with blanket > references to 'being colonized' by those who share, in large part, the > socio-economic status & privileges of the 'first world.' > > Sarah > > >Mary Keller's recommendation of Toni Morrison's *Paradise* raises the > >question again about why postcolonial theory is rarely applied to the U.S. > >or why the postcolonial nature of US, is also not generally recognised. > >(>"Toni Morrison's Paradise is a novel set in the mid-West U.S.A. but > >>nevertheless dealing with many of the issues that postcolonial theory will > >>also address--" ). While most of the list members are living in the U.S., > >>comments rarely address readings/discussions about the United States. This > >>is perhaps because of the emergence of the US as a world power, its > >>consequent position as a centre of global cultural production and > >>circulation, which generates its own conditions of 'specialness', whether > >>real or imagined. The complicit nature of postcolonialism in the US may be > >>another obstacle - being a colonial power itself. > > > >Peter Hulme's call for the inclusion of the United States in postcolonial > >studies acknowledged the differences in cultural politics between > >postcolonial societies ("Including America" *Ariel* no. 26, 1995, pp. > >117-123). And there seems to be need for more debate about this issue. > > > >I welcome other people's comments about this, or suggestions for further > >reading. > > > >regards, adele wessell > > > >>Mary Maga's book on Jonestown takes a very interesting look at the effort to > >>build a utopian community and the way that race and racism in the U.S. led > >>the Jonestown community to escape to an African setting. > >> > >>Toni Morrison's Paradise is a novel set in the mid-West U.S.A. but > >>nevertheless dealing with many of the issues that postcolonial theory will > >>also address--identity, belonging, reactions, internal vs. external > >>violence, authenticity, the desire to build a utopia and with that the need > >>to purge perceived internal threats to perfection. > >> > >>Mary Keller > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > > > > >- > >adele wessell > >school of humanities, media and cultural studies > >southern cross university > >po box 157 > >lismore 2480 > >australia > > > >telephone: 61 2 6620 3946 > >fax: 61 2 6622 1683 > > > > > > > > > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 11:07:43 +0800 > From: Jon Stratton <rstratto-AT-cc.curtin.edu.au> > Subject: Re: postcolonial U.S.? > > Hi Adele, and everybody, > you may interested in the collection being edited by Richard King > entitled _Postcolonial America_ and published by University of Illinois > Press. It is at present being copyedited and I understand that it will be > published either later this year or early next, > Jon (Stratton) > > At 09:45 14/07/99 +1000, you wrote: > >Mary Keller's recommendation of Toni Morrison's *Paradise* raises the > >question again about why postcolonial theory is rarely applied to the U.S. > >or why the postcolonial nature of US, is also not generally recognised. > >(>"Toni Morrison's Paradise is a novel set in the mid-West U.S.A. but > >>nevertheless dealing with many of the issues that postcolonial theory will > >>also address--" ). While most of the list members are living in the U.S., > >>comments rarely address readings/discussions about the United States. This > >>is perhaps because of the emergence of the US as a world power, its > >>consequent position as a centre of global cultural production and > >>circulation, which generates its own conditions of 'specialness', whether > >>real or imagined. The complicit nature of postcolonialism in the US may be > >>another obstacle - being a colonial power itself. > > > >Peter Hulme's call for the inclusion of the United States in postcolonial > >studies acknowledged the differences in cultural politics between > >postcolonial societies ("Including America" *Ariel* no. 26, 1995, pp. > >117-123). And there seems to be need for more debate about this issue. > > > >I welcome other people's comments about this, or suggestions for further > >reading. > > > >regards, adele wessell > > > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 23:09:17 -0400 (EDT) > From: ldn9588-AT-is.NYU.EDU (Lara D. Nielsen) > Subject: Re: postcolonial U.S.? > > In the meantime folks may want to take a look at Jenny Sharpe's 1995 article: > > "Is the United States Postcolonial? Transnationalism, Immigration, and Race" > Diaspora 4:2 > > Lara > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 12:40:15 -0400 > From: Lavina Shankar <lshankar-AT-bates.edu> > Subject: Re: postcolonial U.S.? > > - --------------9932BF57343C47BD6A587BB7 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > There is another forthcoming collection of essays on this topic, Postcolonial > Theory and the U. S. : Race, Ethnicity, and Literature, edited by Amritjit Singh > and Peter Schmidt (University of Mississippi Press, '2000). > > Lavina > > Lara D. Nielsen wrote: > > > In the meantime folks may want to take a look at Jenny Sharpe's 1995 article: > > > > "Is the United States Postcolonial? Transnationalism, Immigration, and Race" > > Diaspora 4:2 > > > > Lara > > > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > - --------------9932BF57343C47BD6A587BB7 > Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > <HTML> > There is another forthcoming collection of essays on this topic, <U>Postcolonial > Theory and the U. S. : Race, Ethnicity, and Literature</U>, edited by Amritjit > Singh and Peter Schmidt (University of Mississippi Press, '2000). > > <P>Lavina > > <P>Lara D. Nielsen wrote: > <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>In the meantime folks may want to take a look at > Jenny Sharpe's 1995 article: > > <P>"Is the United States Postcolonial? Transnationalism, Immigration, and > Race" > <BR>Diaspora 4:2 > > <P>Lara > > <P> --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu > - ---</BLOCKQUOTE> > </HTML> > > - --------------9932BF57343C47BD6A587BB7-- > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 15:02:46 BST > From: Liam Connell <ebpd0-AT-central.susx.ac.uk> > Subject: Re: postcolonial U.S.? > > There is another ARIEL article by Susie O'Brien > 1998. 'America and Postcolonial imperialism' ARIEL 29 (2) > - --- > > Liam Connell > ________________________________________ > > l.j.connell-AT-sussex.ac.uk > www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/ebpd0/home.html > ________________________________________ > > GRC Humanities, > Arts B > University of Sussex > Falmer > Brighton > UK > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 00:57:03 +0900 > From: "Keijiro Suga" <aloha-AT-sc4.so-net.ne.jp> > Subject: Fanon biography > > A couple of years ago or so someone told me that David Macey was writing a > biography of Fanon. I just remembered it and am wondedring if it's already > published or not. Does anybody know? > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:47:23 -0400 > From: Shashwati Talukdar <shashwati-AT-ibm.net> > Subject: Images > > Hi, > > I am looking for images from/about India on the internet. These can be > pictures you like, or hate. You can send me pictures as attachements, or > urls of where these pictures are. > > thanks, > > Shashwati > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:50:52 -0400 > From: Shashwati Talukdar <shashwati-AT-ibm.net> > Subject: Asian American Cinema > > hi, > > I am looking for texts and films that would be good to use in an > undergraduate class about Asian American cinema. I am particularly > interested in the history of immigration and representational practices > within and outside the community. > > thanks, > > Shashwati > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:25:16 -0500 > From: Ken MacDonald <kenneth-macdonald-AT-uiowa.edu> > Subject: Re: Asian American Cinema > > While we're on the subject of film, I'd like to ask for some help in > identifying films that adress issues of cultural dynamics between areas > that are conventionally identified as non-metropolitan in a colonial sense > (e.g., films by Indian film makers that deal with East Idian communities in > Africa). This could be a tough request becuse I need these to be subtitled > or dubbed in English. I'd like to include them in a film series being > offered here inthe Spring of 200 and would be grateful for any suggestions. > Feel free to respond off list and I'll collate and post any responses. > > Thanks > ken > > At 11:50 AM 7/15/99 -0400, you wrote: > >hi, > > > >I am looking for texts and films that would be good to use in an > >undergraduate class about Asian American cinema. I am particularly > >interested in the history of immigration and representational practices > >within and outside the community. > > > >thanks, > > > >Shashwati > > > > > > > > > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Ken I. MacDonald > Dept. Of Geography > 316 Jessup Hall > University of Iowa > Iowa City, IA > USA 52242-1316 > > (319) 335-1137 > (319) 335-2725 fax > kenneth-macdonald-AT-uiowa.edu > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > ------------------------------ > > End of postcolonial-digest V2 #1013 > *********************************** --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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