File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1999/postcolonial.9911, message 44


Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 00:24:06 -0500
From: shashwati-AT-ibm.net (Shashwati Talukdar)
Subject: Re: Travel Writing and Postcolonialism?      


I can think of a couple of films that take this up wiht varying degrees of
success. friends of mine produced a documentary about Hawaii, "Kamaka Eha:
the aching eye"  that takes teh stance of being a tourist, but ends up
being about the sovreignity struggle in Hawaii, it unfolds quite
organically and is sort of multi-vocal, you can get in touch with them at:
anula-AT-termitetv.org
Also, there is Lynn Sachs documentary, "Which way is East?" about her visit
to Vietnam, that is very delicate about her accounts of travelling in
Vietnam.  However Vietnam ends up being the place where Americans created
havoc. I think its an interesting document just for its use of reflexivity
as a way to absolve a rather palpable guilt on the part of a liberal
Westerner visiting the "Other" lands.

While on the subject of travel writing, are there any travel writing
(imperialist and otherwise) and discussion of travel writing on Taiwan?


Shashwati


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