From: "Mohammed BEN JELLOUN" <mohammed.benjelloun-AT-mail.bip.net>
Subject: Re: post-colonial condition of knowledge
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 11:43:22 +0200


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Dear Mirza Athar Baig,

I promess to read "the" post-colonial theoreticians you named. But I need some better advertising. I want you, hopefully, to convince me that they have some answer to my (I think very poco legitimate) question: "How could some global melting pot [or global hybridity] defy global homogenization?"
You seem to have some idea about that. Remember, you wrote:

"Out of this multiplicity of 'hybridities',and fragmentary
bits of consciousness,perhaps some bigger hybridity could evolve
(the 'other 'of globalization!) which could redefine the 'conditions of
knowledge production'."

You said also:

"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 you put it from the outset then, and therefore prior to any discussion of hybridity, I think it's quite legitimate too to ask for what you call a "post-colonial condition of knowledge" being specified, as to what it possibly owes to or objects to Lyotard's "post-modern condition of knowledge."                                                                       

Best wishes, Mohammed

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