Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 10:30:50 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Call for papers


Call for papers for the special session: 


MATERIALIST POST-COLONIAL READINGS: History and 
Structure in Postcolonial Theory and Literature 


at the Central NY Conference on Language and 
Literature, Cortland, NY, October 28-30. 


Despite the continuing appeal of post-colonial theory 
and criticism, many academics have expressed their 
concerns about the textual turn in post-colonial 
studies. Nonetheless, the pitfalls of post-colonial 
theory and criticism can still be corrected once 
post-coloniality is developed in dialogue with other 
critical interventions and forms of social 
mobilization. This panel seeks to examine one path of 
development namely, reading texts at the intersection 
of post-colonialism and cultural materialism, or 
general Marxist approaches to literature. Issues for 
consideration may include: 


* Continuities and divergencies between 
postcolonialism and Marxism. 


* the politics of production and reception of the 
post-colonial text within the international division 
of labor. 


* pedagogies of materialist post-colonialism. 


* Globalization and the post-colonial: Glocalization 
(global/local interdependencies) Vs. world-system 
theory. 


* Gender/feminism between Marxism and 
post-colonialism. 


* Transnational feminism and materialist 
post-colonialism. 


* Intellectuals: Materialist post-colonial 
Interpretations. 


* Marxists and their post-colonial connections: 
Engagements with the specific critiques of 
post-colonialism in the works of Marxist critics 
(e.g., Frederick Jameson, Timothy Brennan, Arif 
Dirlik, etc.) 


* Pots-colonialists and their Marxists conections: 
Interventions in post-colonial critiques that reflects

Marxist influences,overt or covert (e.g. Spivak, Said,

Sangari, Radhakrishnan, etc.) 


Send abstracts by July 15, 2001 to: 
Dr. Jamil Khader 
Assistant Prof of English 
The English Department 
Stetson University 
421 N. Woodland Blv. 
Deland, FL 32720 
jkhader-AT-stetson.edu 



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> postcolonial-digest       Monday, July 2 2001      
> Volume 02 : Number 1470
> 
> 
> 
> In this issue:
> =============> 
>   saeed urrehman         macaulay's minutes online  
>                       
>   "Clifford Duffy"       [none]                     
>                       
>   Ajaa69-AT-aol.com         The etymology of "test"
> cricket?                  
>   michael.hensen-AT-gmx.de  african films              
>                       
>   Denise Cuthbert        Re: The etymology of "test"
> cricket?              
>   satish kolluri         RE: The etymology of "test"
> cricket?              
> 
>
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> 
> Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 01:24:51 +1000
> From: saeed urrehman <saeed.urrehman-AT-anu.edu.au>
> Subject: macaulay's minutes online
> 
>
http://www.mssc.edu/projectsouthasia/history/primarydocs/education/Macaulay001.htm
> 
> well this is for the notorious minutes on indian
> education by macaulay
> 
> just in case...
> 
> saeed
> 
> 
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> 
> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 16:31:54 -0400
> From: "Clifford Duffy" <cwduff-AT-hotmail.com>
> Subject: [none]
> 
> T IS TIME TO INVITE
>       BUBER TO THE PEACE
>                        TALKS
> 
>                  Pete F. Spalding
> 
>             If you know aught that might be
> preferable
>                to these maxims, let me hear it; if
> not,
>                 I beg of you, make of use of these.
>                       Horace, The Epistles
> 
> 
> 
> With the peace talks now stalled on a narrow ridge
> between success and
> failure, with the wild dogs of hate running amok in
> the Middle East, there 
> is no
> better time to resurrect the wisdom of Martin Buber,
> the father of the
> Philosophy of Dialogue.
> 
> Martin Buber (1878-1965), the distinguished Jewish
> philosopher and 
> theologian
> can serve as an articulate guide on the path to a
> lasting peace. The moment
> has arrived to put Buber's Philosophy of Dialogue
> into praxis on the world
> stage.
> 
> Martin Buber-who with his flowing white beard and
> piercing eyes so looked 
> the
> wise philosopher-is best known as the author of I
> and Thou, which contains
> the essence of his Philosophy of Dialogue. He is
> less well known as an
> articulate voice for reconciliation and
> accommodation. No Jewish thinker has
> felt more passionately about the moral necessity for
> reconciliation between
> Jew and Arab than Martin Buber. Buber's wisdom,
> combined with a new
> daring on the part of the Palestinian and Israeli
> leadership, can serve to 
> guide
> the Middle East towards that ever-elusive meeting of
> history and morality.
> Martin Buber cannot make the peace, but his
> discernment can serve as a
> beacon on the way to the peace. The time has arrived
> require the peacemakers
> to sit silently and meditate on the vision of Martin
> Buber, as expressed in 
> his
> writings on Palestinian and Israeli reconciliation,
> samples of which are 
> offered
> below.
> 
> Buber cried out for accommodation between Jew and
> Arab as early as 1920,
> eighteen years before he and his wife Paula settled
> permanently in 
> Palestine.
> At that time Buber wrote:
> 
>      We must abstain from all foreign policy except
> for those steps
>      and actions which are necessary for the
> achievement of a
>      lasting and amicable agreement with the Arabs
> in all aspects
>      of public life, indeed, only those steps which
> would bring
>      about and sustain an all embracing and
> fraternal solidarity
>      with the Arabs are worthy. [1]
> 
> The Prime Minister speaks Arabic and is a keen
> student of Arab culture. This
> should serve him well in obtaining that elusive
> 'lasting and amicable 
> agreement'
> envisioned by Buber, who often decried the lack of
> cultural understanding
> between the two protagonists in the Middle East.
> Barak and Arafat in the 
> past
> have both articulated the need for new departures.
> Buber eloquently echoed
> this when he wrote in 1929:
> 
>      I do not know of any political activity more
> harmful than
>      regarding ones ally or opponent as if he were
> cast in a fixed
>      mold. When we consider him 'like that,' we fall
> victim to the
>      irrationality of his existence, only when we
> pay attention to
>      the fact that human nature is much the same the
> world over
>      will we be able to come to reality.
> Unfortunately, we have not
>      settled Palestine together with the Arabs, but
> 'along side'
>      them. [2]
> 
> Buber never ceased emphasizing that it takes moral
> daring, not power, to 
> make
> peace. He wrote:
> 
>      The truly daring are not those who dream of
> conquest and
>      subjugation, but rather those who look to the
> future, when
>      two nations will together, in brotherhood, make
> the Near
>      East flourish. [3]
> 
> Prime Minister Barak and Chairman Arafat have both
> shown daring in the
> battles of the past. Both will now be called to show
> a like daring in 
> forging a
> lasting peace-a peace Prime Minister Barak has
> termed 'a peace of the 
> brave.'
> Fortunately, history has shown us that individuals
> who have experienced war
> most closely desire peace most fervently. It is not
> too late to rescue the 
> peace
> from the jaws of war.
> 
> Speaking in 1962, Buber said:
> 
>      The main thing is knowing what the moment
> demands. In
>      other words, we must replace the way of
> tactics, which is the
>      short-term approach, with the way of strategy,
> which is
>      thinking for the long term. Real defense
> consists of seeing
>      far ahead, of taking the long view. We must
> work for
>      long-term results, the decisive word must be
> dictated 
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====Jamil Khader, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
The English Department
Stetson University
421 N. Woodland Blv.
Deland, FL 32720
(386) 822-7366 (w)(386) 740-1416 (h)

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