From: "Maureen Ruprecht Fadem" <merf72061-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: BBC - portrait of the English through the eyes of those they colonised
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 20:54:42 -0500


dear marc cronin,
you do not discuss ireland in your report, and yet there is going on 8 
centuries of the very kinds of documents you desire that are written from 
the standpoint of the colonized irish people; as i am sure you must know, 
aside from the instituion of slavery, the colonization of the irish by the 
british has been one of the most brutal (and oldest) colonizations in world 
history. please advise as to whether your study involves only the countries 
mentioned, i believe it was two south asian and three african, or whether 
you mean to investigate the work of the british empire at large.
slainte,
maureen fadem.

>From: MarcCronin-AT-aol.com
>Reply-To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>Subject: BBC - portrait of the English through the eyes of those they 
>colonised
>Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 08:06:04 EST
>
>
>Dear Post-colonial listees,
>
>We are working on a series of programmes which will attempt to give an idea
>of life in the former British colonies from the point of view of those
>colonised, rather than vice-versa, which is so much of what History used to
>be about.
>
>Thus we are looking for source material - novels, poems, letters, oral
>histories, or an anthoology of such material that gives and authentic and
>represenative view of life under the Empire. This was often a shifting 
>scene,
>for before the Raj in India the East India Co. had very good relations with
>the different groups they traded with. Only later did the relationship 
>become
>the one that is most widely remembered - a la Kipling.
>
>So, I would be grateful to anyone on this list if they could recommend
>accounts from India, Singapore or Kenya, Uganda, Gold Coast or other 
>African
>ex-colonies that fit the bill.

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