Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 08:53:58 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Subject: RE: quite simply put...some more worms to can...


Radhika's questions are reasonable and more than worth discussing but I
am rather upset about the quotation that spurs them. Why must we treat
figures such as Spivak and Said as though they were the pope and we
Martin Luther? There is no reason to refrain from criticism but this
quotation is just "cutting down tall poppies." Could anyone use the word
"paradigmatic" and pass this test? Obviously not. At times we seem to be
reaching the point that "the postcolonial critic (if too famous) should 
not speak."
terry

Terry Goldie
English Department
York University
North York, Ontario
Canada
M3J 1P3
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