File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1999/postcolonial.9912, message 17


From: "Mccormick, Martha H" <mhmccorm-AT-iupui.edu>
Subject: List discussion Sep-Oct '95
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 12:24:28 -0500 


Greetings.  For an essay I am revising regarding the internet and its
neocolonial tendencies, I wish to cite to conversation that took place
on this list in Sep-Oct 95.  I have checked the list's official archive
(http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/) and retrieved the index for
those months but the files with the actual postings appear to be empty.
The thread concerned a question posed (in French) about Derek Walcott
and whether this list could be said to have an official language
(English).  Two postings in particular interest me and I would like to
know their authors so as to accurately cite them.  One reads "this
discussion in French on an English-speaking list [is] more rudeness by
some folks who are quick to align themselves with one of the historical
metropoles that had no problem enslaving, say, Cesaire's ancestors."
The other reads "The hyperdeterritorialisation of the net may help
towards a certain apparent linguistic reification which ought, I think,
to be resisted."  If you authored either of these postings or know who
did, please reply to me privately at mhmccorm-AT-iupui.edu

Thank you.  Apologies to the list for this narrowly focused question.

--Martha McCormick



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