From: "Anita Rattan" <anitarattan-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: postcolonial-digest V2 #1429
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 14:58:01
I am thankful to everyone in the list who responded to my question about the
possibility of finding philosophical texts in postcolonialism.I hope to be
able to get hold of some of the books mentioned and find out as to what kind
of philosophical problem can one work with.
I did also look into the websites about african philosophy and yes, i am
aware of fabianīs work on time and other.Thatīs all.
Thanks a lot once again.
anita
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>postcolonial-digest Tuesday, May 15 2001 Volume 02 : Number
>1429
>
>
>
>In this issue:
>=============>
> Keijiro Suga Re: Papiamento
> "amandi esonwanne" Re: Skin lightening in Africa
> "amandi esonwanne" Re: Skin lightening in Africa
> Lisa McNee Re: philosophy and postcolonialism
> Clarkejnc-AT-aol.com Re: philosophy and postcolonialism
> Clarkejnc-AT-aol.com Re: philosophy and postcolonialism
> Rinita Mazumdar Re: philosophy and postcolonialism
> Muhammad Deeb When Rules Don't Apply [Israel's President
>Speaks.
> Muhammad Deeb Lord Gilmour calls Jewish settlements in Gaza
>"aff
> Muhammad Deeb Ian Gilmore: "An Affront To Civilisation"
>
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>Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 19:21:57 +0900
>From: Keijiro Suga <aloha-AT-sc4.so-net.ne.jp>
>Subject: Re: Papiamento
>
>Thank you very much, Margaret and Liz, for your helpful comments. Yes,
>Margaret, I think you got it all right. Pidgin/Creole linguistics is a
>fascinating field, isn't it? Hope we will take up this thread again in the
>future!
>
>Keijiro Suga
>Meiji University, Japan
>
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>Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 14:56:21
>From: "amandi esonwanne" <eamandi-AT-hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: Skin lightening in Africa
>
>Ngugi also presents this issue in his novel _Devil on the Cross_. In
>Nigeria, there is usually mention of this phenomenon in popular literature.
>It is metaphorically reffered to as "fanta face and coca cola legs". I
>can't
>immediately refer you to any source in particular. However, a look at
>Cyprian Ekwensi (_Jagua Nana_ and Jagua Nana's Daughter_) may be fruitful.
>The reason am recommending Ekwensi is because he is one of Nigeria's
>foremost popular fiction writers.
>
>Amandi.
>
>
> >From: NBSaxena-AT-aol.com
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> >Subject: Re: Skin lightening in Africa
> >Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 21:47:48 EDT
> >
> >Ngugi Wa Thiongo's story "Minutes of Glory" refers to a skin lightening
> >cream
> >called Ambi. This story is anthologized in a collection called Global
> >Voices
> >edited by A. Biddle.
> >Neela Bhattacharya Saxena
>
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>Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 14:56:12
>From: "amandi esonwanne" <eamandi-AT-hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: Skin lightening in Africa
>
>Ngugi also presents this issue in his novel _Devil on the Cross_. In
>Nigeria, there is usually mention of this phenomenon in popular literature.
>It is metaphorically reffered to as "fanta face and coca cola legs". I
>can't
>immediately refer you to any source in particular. However, a look at
>Cyprian Ekwensi (_Jagua Nana_ and Jagua Nana's Daughter_) may be fruitful.
>The reason am recommending Ekwensi is because he is one of Nigeria's
>foremost popular fiction writers.
>
>
> >From: NBSaxena-AT-aol.com
> >Reply-To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> >To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> >Subject: Re: Skin lightening in Africa
> >Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 21:47:48 EDT
> >
> >Ngugi Wa Thiongo's story "Minutes of Glory" refers to a skin lightening
> >cream
> >called Ambi. This story is anthologized in a collection called Global
> >Voices
> >edited by A. Biddle.
> >Neela Bhattacharya Saxena
>
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>Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 12:29:19 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Lisa McNee <lm23-AT-qsilver.queensu.ca>
>Subject: Re: philosophy and postcolonialism
>
>Dear Anita:
>I am puzzled, as Kwame Anthony Appiah (Harvard), V.Y. Mudimbe (Stanford
>U), Paulin Hountondji (U of Benin), Kwasi Wiredu (Ghana) and other African
>philosophers could very easily be considered foundational figures in a
>"postcolonial" philosophy. I'm sure other scholars, more informed about
>philosophy, can give you some other suggestions.Best, Lisa
>
>On Fri, 11 May 2001, Anita Rattan wrote:
>
> > hello list members
> >
> > if i am correct, then my impression is that most of the work in
>postcolonial
> > theory is dominated by analyses from literary fields.I am a student of
> > philosophy and would like to do a paper in postcolonialism.Can anyone
>sugget
> > any main text on postcolonialsm which is relevant to philosophy?In other
> > words,is there possibility of doing postcolonial work in philosophy?I
>would
> > very much like if anyone has in mind some texts to be read in this
> > connection, to know about them or otherwise, any possible topic in
> > philosophy and postcolonialism,it would be interesting to work.SO far i
>only
> > can think about the problem of subjectivity.But it is a lot different to
> > talk about subject in philosophy from the one acconted for in the
>literary
> > texts.
> >
> >
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>Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 14:03:49 EDT
>From: Clarkejnc-AT-aol.com
>Subject: Re: philosophy and postcolonialism
>
>I wonder though whether we are running "literary/cultural Theory" into
>philosophy as a discipline. I know I open myself up to a good
>deconstructive
>critique by posing this question. The folks I think of who work "in
>philosophy" and do this work under the problematic rubric postcolonial are
>Lucius outlaw, Robert Bernasconi (to an extent) Tsenay Serequeberhan,
>Emmanuel Eze, Marcien Towa (a central figure who is finally being
>translated)
>and some of the others that have been named. Indeed the question of
>"philosophy proper's" engagement with race (which in some cases takes a
>"postcolonial" form) is quite vexed. Someone correct me on this.
>
>Peculiarly enuff my "list" is all African. There are two names who are
>sitting on my shelf somewhere who work communitarianism-Kantian
>cosmopolitanism (I believe) from South Asian stiltedness, but there names
>escape me.
>
>
>
>Joseph N Clarke
>Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Literatures
>in English
>The University of Pennsylvania
>English Department, Bennett Hall 119
>3340 Walnut Street
>Philadelphia PA 19146-6273 USA
>clarkejnc-AT-aol.com
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>Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 14:25:08 EDT
>From: Clarkejnc-AT-aol.com
>Subject: Re: philosophy and postcolonialism
>
>Oops, that should have been 'South Asian situatedness" not South Asian
>"stiltedness." Blame it on AOL spellcheck.
>
>
>
>Joseph N Clarke
>Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Literatures
>in English
>The University of Pennsylvania
>English Department, Bennett Hall 119
>3340 Walnut Street
>Philadelphia PA 19146-6273 USA
>clarkejnc-AT-aol.com
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>Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 13:24:17 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Rinita Mazumdar <rinita_mazumdar-AT-yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: philosophy and postcolonialism
>
>Kairul,
>that is a great list, I would add one more that I
>shall use for my poco philosophy class which I am
>trying to get cross listed with philosophy, Culture
>and Women's Studies.
>
>
>Margins Of Margins by Ajit Chaudhury and Dipankar Das.
>
>
>Rinita
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>wrote:
> > Hi Anita
> >
> > You can consider the following texts to start with:
> >
> > Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. The Spivak Reader.
> > Ed. Donna
> > Landry and Gerald MacLean. New York: Routledge
> > 1995.
> > Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. London:
> > Routledge,
> > 1994.
> > Best, S., and Douglas Kellner. Postmodern Theory.
> > London:
> > Macmillan, 1991.
> > Childs, Peter and R.J. Patrick Williams. An
> > Introduction to
> > Post-Colonial Theory. London: Prentice Hall &
> > Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1997.
> > Gandhi, Leela. Postcolonial Theory. Sydney: Allen
> > & Unwin,
> > 1998.
> > Loomba, Ania. Colonialism/Postcolonialism. London:
> > Routledge, 1998.
> >
> > all best,
> >
> > Khairul
> >
> > k.
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>Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 07:17:15 -0600 (MDT)
>From: Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb-AT-gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
>Subject: When Rules Don't Apply [Israel's President Speaks...]
>
>
>When Rules Don't Apply
>
>The Daily Star 15/05/01 [by way of Rick Rozoff]
>
>Israeli politicians have uttered some fairly offensive words over
>the years, but at least the general tendency of late had been for
>the Jewish state's president to try and set a more civilized
>example. Not so Moshe Katzav, the far-right zealot who now
>occupies the largely ceremonial but nonetheless highly
>influential position of head of state. He, it seems, has decided
>to use his presidency for the propagation of ideas whose root
>logic is no different from that which inspired the likes of
>Hitler and Goebbels.
>
>According to The Jerusalem Post, Katzav said the following last
>Thursday: "There is a huge gap between us (Jews) and our enemies
> not just in ability but in morality, culture, sanctity of life,
>and conscience. They are our neighbors here, but it seems as if
>at a distance of a few hundred meters away, there are people who
>do not belong to our continent, to our world, but actually belong
>to a different galaxy."
>
>If only one could dismiss such words as harmless tripe, the blood
>would not boil quite so badly. But Katzav is the leader of a
>sovereign country; his statements carry weight among his people
>and so make it acceptable to express mindless hatred based on
>race and/or religion. And then he and his compatriots express
>shock at being compared to the Nazis: What else can they expect
>when they allow this kind of verbal garbage to spill from their
>lips?
>
>Like all Israelis, Katzav ought to know better. The people whom
>Hitler derided as "sub-human" and tried to eradicate were his
>own; they have witnessed first-hand the logical extension of such
>vile rhetoric. These facts only add to the outrage with which one
>should view his comments.
>
>Despite almost all of the international community having
>condemned Israel for the use of excessive force in trying to put
>down the intifada, the Jewish state is crossing new "red lines"
>every day: "Incursions" into Gaza get steadily deeper; missile
>attacks hit more and more "targets;" the definition of "terror"
>becomes increasingly divorced from reality. And the escalations
>are not only physical but also psychological: Remarks like
>Katzav's only reinforce the theory that far too many Israelis
>have sunk to the level of their one-time oppressors and allowed
>themselves to be taken in by the preachers of hate.
>
>One of the Western media's favorite pastimes is the
>characterization of Arabs and Muslims as people who hate Jews for
>no other reason than that they are, in fact, Jews. This activity
>is especially helpful to the Jewish state and its apologists
>because it conveniently overlooks the half-century calamity that
>Israelis in particular, not Jews in general, have inflicted on
>the Arab world.
>
>Whenever and wherever an Arab figure criticizes Israel, he runs
>the risk of being branded an "anti-Semite" (which would be a neat
>trick, seeing as how Arabs are far more "Semitic" than the
>European Jews who established modern Israel). The message is as
>simple as it has been effective: Anyone who dares question
>Israeli policy is written off as someone who hates Jews per se, a
>reality which, in the West, has ruined careers and radicalized
>otherwise moderate voices.
>
>The word "conspiracy" is badly over-used, but the term "double
>standard" does not get nearly enough play, especially since it
>applies to virtually every political event in this part of the
>world: Every Israeli attack against Arabs is uniformly described
>by Western journalists as "retaliation;" when Lebanese firemen
>are murdered in cold blood by Israeli fighter pilots, Western
>news agencies run photographs of Israeli families carrying their
>"terrified" dogs into bomb shelters; etc.
>
>When Syrian President Bashar Assad used the platform of the
>recent papal visit to accuse Israel of persecuting Arabs, the
>Jewish state's friends were quick to express their disapproval:
>The United States and France publicly chastised the Syrian leader
>and accused him of undermining the peace process. Damascus has
>said that he was misquoted, but even if he was not, the original
>version of his statement was not nearly so repugnant as what
>Katzav said.
>
>But the moralizers of Western diplomacy are nowhere to be seen
>or heard when an Israeli says something filthy enough to offend
>a farm animal. Where are their high-minded principles now? Where
>are their warnings that extremist rhetoric only serves to incite
>violence? Where is their obsession with shouting down hate-
>mongers?
>
>There is a word for this kind of deliberate and conspicuous
>silence, especially when it is practiced so consistently:
>hypocrisy. Western leaders and journalists who style themselves
>as defenders of justice are anything but and ought to hang their
>heads in shame.
>
>Copyright (c) 2001 The Daily Star. All rights reserved.
>
>
>
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>Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 07:21:35 -0600 (MDT)
>From: Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb-AT-gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
>Subject: Lord Gilmour calls Jewish settlements in Gaza "affront to
>civilization"
>
>Lord Gilmour calls Jewish settlements in Gaza "affront to civilization"
>
>
>Mon, 14 May 2001
>
>Lord Gilmour calls Jewish settlements in Gaza "affront to civilization"
>
>Occupied Jerusalem: 14 May, 2001 (IAP News) - Lord Gilmour, a former
>British Foreign Secretary, has castigated the zionist occupation regime's
>persecution of the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as
>being much worse than European colonialism in the nineteenth century.
>
>Writing in the British newspaper, the Observers, on 13 May, Gilmour wrote
>that Israel was tormenting the Palestinians in ways far exceeding any thing
>done by 19th-century imperial powers.
>
>"On the pretext of security, the Israeli army is laying waste some of the
>best Palestinian soil. I saw acres and acres of uprooted olive and fruit
>trees, some of them in places where there could be no possible security
>excuse. Israel used to boast that they had made the desert bloom; now they
>can boast they have turned previously blooming Palestinian land into a
>desert," wrote Gilmour who recently toured the West Bank and Gaza.
>
>He pointed out that the Israeli army was using excessive power to vanquish
>Palestinians, eager to free themselves from decades old military
>occupation.
>
>"The Israeli army is able not only to destroy buildings and kill
>Palestinian fighters and unarmed civilians in any quantities desirable, but
>also to impose collective punishments and to make life intolerable for the
>entire population."
>
>Gilmour dismissed the so-called "Barak offers" made during the Camp David
>talks last year as a myth.
>
>He said Barak's "generosity involved derisory terms on Jerusalem and would
>have kept most of Israel's major illegal settlements in place, turning the
>areas assigned to the Palestinians into a series of mini-Bantustans, and
>making the resulting Palestinian state unviable.
>
>"Had Nelson Mandela accepted such an offer from apartheid South Africa, he
>would have been reviled as a traitor. And if Yasser Arafat had accepted
>the Camp David offer, he would have been similarly execrated."
>
>Gilmour castigated Israeli settlement policy, especially in the Gaza Strip.
>
>"Israel's illegal settlements on the West Bank are bad enough, but the ones
>in the Gaza Strip are an affront to civilization. I very much doubt if
>there is, even in the murkiest annals of nineteenth-century colonialism, a
>remotely comparable instance of imperial arrogance and contemptuous regard
>for the rights of subject people."
>
>Gilmour pointed out that Israel was behaving without any regard to
>international law, arguing that without international pressure on Israel,
>the shameful humiliation of Palestinians will continue.
>
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>Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 07:27:43 -0600 (MDT)
>From: Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb-AT-gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
>Subject: Ian Gilmore: "An Affront To Civilisation"
>
> "AN AFFRONT TO CIVILISATION"
>
> Without international pressure on Israel,
> the shameful humiliation of Palestinians
> will continue
>
> By Ian Gilmour
>
>[The Observer, UK - 13 May 2001]: I was on my way to Khan Yunis, a
>desperately poor Palestinian refugee town in the Gaza Strip, when we
>learned it was under heavy bombardment. Please, urged my Palestinian
>guides, could I postpone my visit to the next day? Although I thought it
>unlikely I would suffer the same fate as the four-month-old baby, blown to
>pieces that morning by the Israeli army, I agreed.
>
>The next day, seeing houses that had, without any warning, been bulldozed
>in the middle of the night by the Israeli army and then talking to their
>former inhabitants, now huddled in tents, was a haunting experience.
>
>And Khan Yunis is not untypical. A ruthless colonial war is being waged
>throughout the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, the territories occupied by
>Israel since 1967. I also happened to be in Beit Jalla the previous day,
>when the Israelis reoccupied and demolished a section of this Christian
>suburb of Bethlehem. The Israeli army of occupation has the overwhelming
>superiority of a nineteenth-century imperial power.
>
>'We have got the Maxim Gun,' sang Hilaire Belloc, 'and they have not.' The
>modern equivalent of the Maxim gun for mowing down 'the natives' is the
>American-made Apache helicopter and a plethora of other hi-tech weaponry.
>
>And since, as Yasser Arafat perhaps wistfully told me, the Palestinians
>'don't have helicopter gunships, tanks or gunboats', General Mofaz, the
>Israeli commander, is able not only to destroy buildings and kill
>Palestinian fighters and unarmed civilians in any quantities he wants, but
>also to impose collective punishments and to make life intolerable for the
>entire population.
>
>In addition, on the pretext of security, Mofaz is laying waste some of the
>best Palestinian soil. I saw acres and acres of uprooted olive and fruit
>trees, some of them in places where there could be no possible security
>excuse. Israelis used to boast that they had made the desert bloom; now
>they can boast they have turned previously blooming Palestinian land into
>a desert.
>
>But why, it may be asked, are 'the natives' restive? And is it not their
>own fault, for were they not offered a very 'generous' deal at Camp David
>last autumn? To take the second question first, the claim that Mr Barak
>made a generous offer at Camp David has become the reigning orthodoxy. But
>it is a myth. The alleged generosity involved derisory terms on Jerusalem
>and would have kept most of Israel's major illegal settlements in place,
>turning the areas assigned to the Palestinians into a series of
>mini-Bantustans, and making the resulting Palestinian state unviable.
>
>For instance, this 'state' would have been deprived of almost any water,
>as all the West Bank aquifers were to be annexed by Israel. Had Nelson
>Mandela accepted such an offer from apartheid South Africa, he would have
>been reviled as a traitor. And if Yasser Arafat had accepted the Camp
>David offer, he would have been similarly execrated.
>
>Not only did the Palestinians, partly through their own negligence, suffer
>a public-relations disaster at Camp David, they helped to unify Israel
>behind a hardline policy by the way they talked, understandably but
>unwisely, about the right of return for the refugees whom Israel expelled
>in 1948. Their return would effectively mean the abolition of the state of
>Israel. Yet an Israeli admission that they were ill-treated and entitled
>to compensation is perfectly feasible and long overdue.
>
>The answer to the first question is that the natives are restive because
>they are fed up with 34 years of brutal occupation. They want the right of
>self-determination and they now realise that they have been
>double-crossed. Israel's pre-1967 frontiers already give her 78 per cent
>of Palestinian territory, which seems quite a lot. The Oslo agreement was
>meant to establish an irreversible process whereby Israel exchanged the
>Palestinian land she had occupied since 1967 for peace. Instead, Israel
>has done the opposite. Because of what the former Israeli Minister,
>Shulamit Aloni, has called Israel's 'unrestrained greed', it has, since
>Oslo, doubled the number of illegal settlers.
>
>Ariel Sharon continually denounces Palestinian 'terrorism' and 'violence',
>forgetting, no doubt, that his own record of terrorism and violence is, as
>the police used to say, as long as your arm. To take just its high points.
>In 1953, he and his subordinates bravely massacred 69 Jordanian villagers,
>including 46 women and children. In 1982, he engineered the Israeli
>invasion of Lebanon and killed hundreds of civilians by his bombing of
>Beirut.
>
>Finally, there were the massacres of Sabra and Shatila, for which an
>Israeli commission found Sharon 'remiss in his duties'. The Cabinet voted
>to remove him from his ministry by a vote of 16 to one (himself). Since
>then, Sharon has consistently favoured the violent option and always tried
>to block any progress towards peace.
>
>Of course, there has been terrorism on the other side. All Palestinian
>violence within Israel proper is terrorism and the Hamas suicide bombings
>are atrocities. Furthermore, not only are they suicidal for the actual
>bombers, they are suicidal for the Palestinian cause. Very understandably,
>they unite Israelis against Palestinians. Many Israelis take a different
>attitude to Palestinian violence in the occupied territories. They have
>little love for the settlers, and they recognise that most (though not
>all) Palestinian violence in the territories is not 'terrorism' but
>justified resistance to armed occupation. All the same, a non-violent
>intifada would have been far better for the cause, but Barak's lethal
>reaction to unarmed demonstrators in its first three days made that
>impossible.
>
>Israel's illegal settlements on the West Bank are bad enough, but the ones
>in the Gaza Strip are an affront to civilisation. The Israeli army and
>some 1,000 settlers occupy some 40 per cent of the Strip and take about
>the same percentage of the water, thus leaving only 60 per cent for no
>fewer than 1,100,000 Palestinians. I very much doubt if there is, even in
>the murkiest annals of nineteenth-century colonialism, a remotely
>comparable instance of imperial arrogance and contemptuous regard for the
>rights of subject people.
>
>No wonder many decent Israelis want to end this intolerable situation. The
>former Minister, Haim Ramon, recently said that as soon as there is a
>ceasefire, Israel and all the settlers should leave the Strip. That is,
>indeed, the only respectable solution.
>
>The settlements are the nub of the matter, as the US-appointed commission,
>chaired by George Mitchell, made clear last week. Without a complete halt
>to settlement expansion, there will be no end to the violence now, and
>without the removal of most of them there will be no peace in the future.
>As senior Israeli politicians privately admit, pressure from the US and
>Europe is the only way to stop Sharon creating unlimited havoc and doing
>irrevocable damage to whatever chances of peace still exist.
>
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