Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 00:40:32 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Hegel and PC


As has already been mentioned, Fanon is certainly the most prominent
example: explicitly, in Black Skin, White Masks, and implicitly almost
everywhere else, especially the chapter "Concerning Violence" in The
Wretched of the Earth. In a larger context, a whole generation of French
theorists were influenced by Alexandre Kojeve's (sp?) reading of Hegel,
especially the master/slave dialectic. You might check out the last
chapter of Judith Butler's Subjects of Desire, on Hegel's influence on
French thought. Finally, Paul Gilroy does an interesting reading of the
master/slave model in The Black Atlantic, tying it to a reading of
Morrison's Beloved.

Best wishes,

Tony Alessandrini



On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 ct50-AT-cornell.edu wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've heard people using Hegel's Master/Slave model to describe the 
> colonizer/colonized interaction.  But does anybody know who exactly in 
> the postcolonial field has done so?  I mean not just the classic 
> postcolonial scheme of Self/Other differentiation, but particularly the 
> Master/Slave model?  Will appreciate any input.
> 
> ct
> 
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