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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 14:09:17 -0400
From: Purna Chowdhury <pchowdhu-AT-chat.carleton.ca>
Subject: Re: postcolonial-digest V2 #1013


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> 
> postcolonial-digest      Thursday, July 15 1999      Volume 02 : Number 1013
> 
> In this issue:
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>   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
> 
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> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 20:57:15 +0100
> From: "Shamira Meghani" <bluejam-AT-onet.co.uk>
> Subject: [none]
> 
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
> 
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> ------------------------------
> 
> 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
> 
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> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> 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
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> 
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> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> 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
> 
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> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> 
> - -
> 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
> 
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> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> 
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> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> 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
> >
> 
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> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> 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
> 
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> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 12:40:15 -0400
> From: Lavina Shankar <lshankar-AT-bates.edu>
> Subject: Re: postcolonial U.S.?
> 
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> 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
> >
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> 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
> 
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> 
> 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)
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> 
> 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
> 
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> ------------------------------
> 
> 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?
> 
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> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> 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
> 
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> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> 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
> 
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> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 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
> 
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