Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:03:12 -0600 From: Pradeep Dhillon <dhillon-AT-ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: Re: for margaret re: spivak >I could not agree more.... and about time too.. >I think both their work os relevant for different reasons and my particular >penchant for Spivak lies in her constant reminder of the real politik >something I find lacking in Bhabha. What i also like about Spivak's >arguments and methodology is the refusal to produce static categories for >consumption--unlike say the manner in which mimicry has become a byword in >poco and other fields--a packagable category that can travel--Spivak's >terminologies are less mobile. Its not that Bhabha is less difficult but >that somehow the categories he works with and has helped mobilize become so >easily transportable whereas a term like strategic essentialism (as much as >it has been used and abused) cannot function like mimicry or hybridity. I >guess thats what i enjoy most about her work despite its often maddening >self citation, ellipsis and opacity. -- Educational Policy Studies (Philosophy) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 217-333-5236 --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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