Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 18:21:38 +1000
From: saeed urrehman <saeed.urrehman-AT-anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Post-colonial condition of knowledge.


mirza sahib,

don't you think that the condition of knowledge production has been changed 
for us once and for all? "tarikh to wohi likhtay hein jo jeet jatay 
hain"/"history is written by the victorious". i still remember this line 
from one of your plays. firdous jamal said this. you put the idea of 
discourse out there on pakistan tv without using the word. wonderful strategy.

at best, "we" can produce hybridity now. now they say everything has always 
been hybrid. i guess macaulay was hybrid too. there is no us versus them 
anymore. hybridity itself has become the new ideology. if you speak in a 
non-hybrid way (if it is possible) you may not be considered sophisticated. 
once you have a full belly, the next thing you should aim at is sophistication.

tarikh tau wohi likhtay hain jo jeet jatay hain.

saeed urrehman


At 12:55 PM 7/15/2001 +0500, you wrote:
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>I would like to make a request for discussion on the 'post-colonial 
>condition of knowledge',
>within the frame work of the concept of 'hybridity',as it is understood in 
>its various contexts
>in Post-colonial discourse.As a preliminary hypothesis ,it can be 
>suggested that the hybridization
>of the dominant and the dominated sociologies of knowledge ,in the 
>colonial situation leads to
>the emergence of degenerative unconscious processes,which ultimately stunt 
>the 'natural' growth
>  of the cognitive faculties of the colonized.
>  Science ,the most pervasive colonial epistemology,rooted as it ,in the 
> historico-cultural formations of the
>  colonizer,comes to be dispersed into a multiplicity of historical 
> trajectories
>of appropriation,in different colonized societiesThese hybrid 
>epistemologies,go along with '
>the psychologies of defense ,at the individual and cultural 
>levels,purporting to find workable
>  and sometimes ,not so workable answers to the question: how to live
>  with the 'irreconilables' and the 'irreversivbles' and yet not be 
> paralyzed by intellectual apathy
>  or a sense of cultural doom(a sort of no-way-out syndrome).
>Who is going to tell the stories (or sub-altern histories,if you like) of 
>pidgin sciences,and Creole
>philosophies in the post-colonial world(south Asia, for that matter)
>
>
>
>
>Mirza Athar Baig
>Associate Professor,
>Department of Philosophy,
>Government College,Lahore,
>PAKISTAN.
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