Subject: a few words for .ben jelloun and saeed urrehman
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 10:13:13 +0500


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          Mr.BEN JELLOUN, 

It is interesting to see the post-modern concept of
'agonistics' and the post-colonial concept of 'hybridity'
placed in an antithetical relationship,but the situation
is perhaps a little more complex.The roots of the former,
Lyotardian notion,can be traced to Wittengenstein's theory
of 'language games',whereas the latter is one of  the leading
paradigms ,employed by the post-colonial theoreticians to
portray and explain " the creation of new transcultural forms
within the contact zone produced by colonization".(See 'Hybridity',
in 'Key concepts of Post-colonial studies' Aschcraft and others.
For primary sources,see 'The location of culture' Homi Bhabha1994
and  Robert Young's ,Colonial Desire : Hybridity in theory,culture
and race.)
             
          Seed Urrheman sahib,

Given sufficient 'will to sophistication', do you think any 'new'
recipe of complexity can avoid benefiting from the menu of
post-structuralist delicacies,or their Anglo-American counterparts.
The acclaimed complexity of post-colonial theoreticians is no
exception.

                   < Mirza Athar Baig>

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