Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 16:21:08 -0400
Subject: Re: Post-postcolonial theory


Terry,

this is what I understand from some other "activist" side of the continuum
friends/colleagues - which is why I'm suggesting the binary is "false" - yet
"real" in the way it works to set up the imagined dchotomy (am i making
sense - maybe not - but i tried:)).

Mac - I enjoyed reading your experience within Teaching contexts. As someone
who uses poco theory within a non-literature area of study - In  classrooms
(I teach "communication theory" and we do not have special courses on
"postcolonial theory and communication" yet), I am faced with a slightly
different set of issues in my "theory" classes where I get to pull in poco
as one of several "approaches" to the study of communication - perhaps this
is where some of my questions are coming from. In addition, my questions
come from the fact that, at the moment my co-author on one of my ongoing
"projects" (or her ongoing "projects") is not only from outside the official
Academy, she is also working in contexts totally different from mine (but
whether or not all people on this list would consider her "activist" i can't
say). 

So I really appreciated all the recent comments and discussions. 

thanks,
r

At 02:57 PM 8/14/00 -0400, you wrote:
>I have trouble with the concern for "application" of poco theory. I am not
>an activist but I was one in my youth and most discussion of the ins and
>outs of political philosophy seemed to me quite pointless in that context.
>Those discussions made me decide where to stand but they told me little
>about what to do from where I was standing. As an activist I was much more
>concerned as to what should be done and how to do it.
>terry
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>Terry Goldie
>English Department
>York University
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>Canada
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