Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 17:45:26 -0400
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The (im)propriety of the term "postcolonial" will hopefully be addressed

on
the list.  For now: "We use the term 'post-colonial'...to cover all the
culture affected by the imperial process from the moment of colonization

to
the present day" (Bill Ashcroft, et al. _The Empire Writes Back_. 1989).

Postcolonial literature and film generally includes the cultural
productions emerging out of the experience of colonization.

Postcolonial theory and criticism interrogates the relations between
culture and imperialism.  It frequently is concerned with creating
agency
for the marginalized and with recovering lost cultural histories.
Feminist
questions are, of course, germane to this discussion.  The roles of
academia and the Internet in postcolonial power relations merit
discussion
as well.

A list of representative authors and directors might include:

*LITERATURE*: Chinua Achebe, George Lamming, Aime Cesaire, Sara Suleri,
Salman Rushdie, Buchi Emecheta, Jamaica Kincaid, Michelle Cliff,
Marguerite
Duras, Farida Karodia, Ayi Kwei Armah, Nuruddin Farah, Nadine Gordimer,
Bessie Head, V.S. Naipaul, Wole Soyinka, Simone Schwarz-Bart, Derek
Walcott, Anita Desai, Hanif Kureishi, C.L.R. James, etc.

*FILM*: Claire Denis, Ketan Mehta, Farida Ben Lyazid, Ken Loach, Peter
Ormrod, Horace Ove, Srinivas Krishna, Ousmane Sembene, Gurinder Chada,
Pratibha Parmar, the Sankofa Film Collective, Mira Nair, Marguerite
Duras,
etc.

*THEORY*: Homi Bhabha, Partha Chatterjee, Amilcar Cabral, Frantz Fanon,
Ranajit Guha, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Edward Said, Trinh T. Minha,
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Abdul Jan Mohamed, etc.
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more
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works-in-progress, and creative appropriations of the texts across a
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