Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 13:44:28 -0700
Subject: Re: East is east


Salil wrote: 
>
>East is East is written by a Bangladeshi-British playwright, Ayub Khan Din. 
>He was born in the UK, and is in his 30s. And no, he is not white. The play 
>was produced first; the film followed. So how th Spivakism, of white men and 
>brown men and women apply here, is a mystery to me. But then I am not an 
>academic.
>

The best non-academic explanation I can provide is: many in the South Asian
community speak disparagingly of others in their community as "cocconuts:
brown on the outside, white on the inside."  

More "academic" explanations are provided by Fanon among many others....

Priti Joshi
Department of English
University of Puget Sound
1500 North Warner St.
Tacoma, WA 98416
Ph: (253) 879-3286
Fax: (253) 879-3500
email: pjoshi-AT-ups.edu


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