Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:54:47 +0000
Subject: Re: Kristeva and Bhabha


Joe--isn't Bhabha's understading of migration also vulnerable to
accusations of romanticism? This is espeically clear in his readings of
literature.  The passage he cites from The Satanic Verses concerning
Gibreel's fantasy of tropicalising the English fits in nicely with bhabha's
idea that the postcolonial emigre will hybridise the Western nation ( a
reductive paraphrase, no doubt).  True to form, his selective quotations
seriously distort a novel that is more concerned--to my mind--with the
psychic cost of racism and displacement than with the supposed benefits of
hybridity.
Sam.

Dr Samuel Durrant
16 Trinty St
Norwich NR2 2BQ
England
Tel 01603 664858.




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