From: "Marlene" <maratleo-AT-island.net> Subject: Re: Anxiety in Postcolonial Subject Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 08:15:48 -0700 Tina, You might be interested in Tom Burvill's work on post colonial anxiety of legitimacy...he is "down" there at Macquarie. But probably more interesting is UCLA doctoral student in cultural studies Shilpa Agarwal's website in which she discusses her own postcolonial anxiety and how she deals with it...at: http://www.strirmag.com/communities.html Shilpa opens with Thomas Szasz' quote from "The Second Sin": "In the animal kindgom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom it is define or be defined." She echos my sentiments when she speaks about what to do with the freefloating anxiety of managing the multiple identities as we negotiate our intrapsychical selves in between communities in which we have our histories and where we are situated "Rather than allowing these fears to paralyze or pens, we must embrace these anxieties - anxieties that drive us to write with conscious commitment." She maintains that to do this we must be willing to deconstruct our selves constructively and that requires a self awareness that can situate the subject in relationship to the issue and audience. Its a tricky business, a "collision of the mind and heart" in the process of moving between telling secrets and biting our tongues... the key I think is "conscious commitment" in constructing a new way in a seemingly normless moras..... As a health educator in the indigenous community the psychical cannibalism of colonialism is all too apparent to me and the cost to human health is very high..(the irony of course is that "cannibalism", a way of talking about the non-Christian other is one of the greatest Euro-fears)..traditonally indigenous societies acknowledged this in the NW Coast through mask dances and cannibal dance ceremonies that dealt with the anxieties of "otherness"....scientism/colonialism declared those defenses illegitimate and illegal (See my review of "Potlatch Papers" in the Journal of World History, 1999), outlawing their use...not permitting a means to assuage the very real manifestation of such anxieties which occured in the colonial project.... now among FN there is a government funded "healing project" to ameliorate the effects of physical, sexual, religious abuse of the colonization of aboriginal people in church run Canadian residential schools which manifests itself in high rates of alcoholism, drug abuse, intergenertional violence in the poverty zones that are reserves and urban ghettos... I think postcolonial anxiety is a very useful analytic lens... please let us know what other resources you find... mar(e) ----- Original Message ----- From: Christine Eklom <Christine.Eklom-AT-jcu.edu.au> To: <postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu> Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 11:02 PM Subject: Anxiety in Postcolonial Subject > Dear List Members, > > I'm researching anxiety in the postcolonial subject. Most research that > I've turned up so far discusses anxiety but in the colonizer not in the > colonial or postcolonial subject (as in Homi Bhabha). Does anyone know of > any books or articles which ocver this particular topic. > > Thanks in advance > Tina > School of Humanities > James Cook University > Townsville > Australia > > > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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