File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_2002/postcolonial.0208, message 23


From: kwsmith-AT-kzoo.edu
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:39:31 EST
Subject: Re: POSTCOLONIAL/LYING ON THE POSTCOLONIAL COUCH: The Idea of


I might be interested in doing the book review.  Please let me 
know what kind of time frame there is.

Kathleen W. Smith
Professor of Romance Languages
Kalamazoo College
Kalamazoo MI   49006



On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 16:21:03 -0500 Stacy Zellmann wrote:

> Please post this to POSTCOLONIAL.  Also, please let me 
know if you'd
> like to
> review the book for your listserv.  Thanks!
> 
> Best wishes,
> Stacy Zellmann
> Direct Marketing Coordinator
> University of Minnesota Press
> 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290
> Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520
> 612-627-1934
> http://www.upress.umn.edu
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Exposes the complicity of language and its uses in the 
colonial project.
> 
> LYING ON THE POSTCOLONIAL COUCH: The Idea of 
Indifference
> Rukmini Bhaya Nair
> University of Minnesota Press | 400  pages | 2002
> ISBN 0-8166-3365-7 | hardcover | $63.95
> ISBN 0-8166-3366-5 | paperback | $22.95
> 
> ÒNair's book gives postcolonialism a decent burial and looks 
forward to Ôa
> new language of community.Õ It exposes the Ônumbing 
rituals of
> colonial and
> postcolonial indifferenceÕ with a light touch, pausing on 
postmodern
> theories on the way.Ó ÑGayatri Chakravorty Spivak
> 
> For more information, visit the book's webpage:
> http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/N/nair_lying.html




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