Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 00:14:39 -0400
From: Brown & Sant <santbrown-AT-lweb.net>
Subject: Re: your mail


You are probably quite right here. Postcolonial (usually without the
hyphen) was used to avoid using a whole bunch of things none of us
intended back then ;=) About the date: I launched a course in
"Postcolonial Literature" in the late seventies at what is now the
University of Technology, Sydney (Australia). As it happened, the first
run used almost all Nigerian fiction, but the door was then happily open
for New Zealand, American and the rest.

Patricia Sant.

00acking-AT-bsuvc.bsu.edu wrote:
> 
> I can not give sources but in the early 1980s postcolonial was used
> to avoid writing post-independence as that was not intended in the
> contrast to colonial literature. But it rapidly took on a non-Commonwealth
> literature significance allowing, say, American along with New Zealand
> literature. I use the two nations as I think the first time I saw
> postcolonial in a course description (in contrast to in passing in an
> article) was at Auckland University in a course which included Melville
> along with Pacific literatures. As the Auckland English department was
> often influenced by by the USA they might already have been following a
> fashion. My impression is that Australian universities and other New
> Zealand universities  were still using
> Commonwealth or New Literatures.  Bruce King
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> On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Malini Johar Schueller wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone know if the term "postcolonial" or "post-colonial" was used
> > before Simon During used it in his essay, "Postmodernism or
> > Postcolonialism" in 'Landfall' in 1985? Any information about this would be
> > greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks in advance and happy holidays.
> >
> > Malini Johar Schueller
> > Malini Johar Schueller
> > Professor
> > Department of English
> > University of Florida
> > Gainesville, FL 32611-7310
> >
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