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 --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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