File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_2001/postcolonial.0111, message 154


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.



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