From: "Dave Cummings" <dc29-AT-ukc.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: Alternative to this list -- 'H-Postcolonial' (proposed)
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 21:22:03 +0100


This is really getting so futile, someone says black and another says white.
The guy was asking if there would be interest in a more academic profile -
that's it. It's not a conspiracy, or some ivory tower mentality, just that.
I think the majority of people who work in po-co theory (I also work in
queer theory)  fight on a daily basis within their institutions and with the
faculty, and in some cases students on a daily basis. Academics have carved
out a space in academia, have TAUGHT and have been activists. This ivory
tower bollocks is offensive, mostly propagated by people who crap on about
the irrelevance of academic life to 'real life'.



I am, like all, busy; this is not a hobby for me; I am a graduate student
trying to finish my doctorate whilst teaching (for a pittance) and would
someday like to make a difference inside academia; I welcome debate; I do
not wish to see mail which is pointless bickering and bitching.

Comments like 'Don't be sectarian, don't leave the chaos of the masses.
Don't we work enough in *silence*?' do very little constructively. The
'chaos of the masses'? - what the hell does this mean (I rapidly feel like I
have fallen into a Pynchon novel).

I have a number of theoretical and literary issues at the moment, which I
just do not feel would be engaged with here. To my mind one of the most
interesting post done here is on homosexuality and poco theory, by Andrew
Lesk. Has it been answered, has it buggery. The list has an argument about
having another list. Or more name calling about Israel-Palestine. This list
is not functioning as a list about poco lit and theory.

So yes, another list more concerned with things academic would be grand and,
yes Andrew I have some stuff which I will send you.

Dave Cummings
Centre for colonial and post-colonial studies
School of English
University of Kent Canterbury
Kent
UK
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
[mailto:owner-postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu]On Behalf Of Ralph
Hage
Sent: 14 May 2002 20:29
To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
Subject: Re: Alternative to this list -- 'H-Postcolonial' (proposed)


Hear hear

Ralph Hajj
Portfolio:  http://www.geocities.com/cathedral12001

---- Messages dorigine ----
De: Jaclyn Rosebrook-Collignon <jaclynr-AT-free.fr>
Date: mardi 14 mai  2002 11:03
Objet: Re: Alternative to this list -- 'H-Postcolonial' (proposed)

> Just a couple of questions about the new list proposal.
> Why can't a scholarly discourse take place here in the pit along
> with all
> the other voices?  Must it be segretated too?  Isn't this part of our
> failures as scholars and researchers?  When the din of the masses
> conflictswith our purposes, we cloister ourselves?  Why are you
> afraid of *anonymous*
> & masked voices? And how can one be interested in postcolonialism
> withoutbeing interested in the geopolitical situation?  In my view,
> the researchers
> and scholars (and other professionally minded people in
> postcolonialism-
> whatever that means) have a duty to be on lists like this to
> temper, ignite,
> orient and rectify the flows of argument.
> Don't be sectarian, don't leave the chaos of the masses. Don't we work
> enough in *silence*?
> Jaclyn
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: saeed urrehman <think-AT-riseup.net>
> To: <postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 3:38 PM
> Subject: Re: Alternative to this list -- 'H-Postcolonial' (proposed)
>
>
> > i think any list that does not talk about the "daily grind" of
> Israel and
> > Palestine is not worthy of subscription.
> >
> > saeed
> >
>
>
>
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