From: voodoochile-AT-mail.utexas.edu Subject: Re: ethics (?) in poco condition Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 19:23:00 -0500 (CDT) Hi- I think Gayatri Spivak's _A Critique of Postcolonial Reason_ is helpful for thinking about ethical matters. Hope this helps. Jen Quoting Cyc1123-AT-aol.com: > > Hi, > I'm soliciting suggestions on ethical approaches to understanding the > postcolonial condition. "Ethical" in at least two senses. One is > alongside > Levinas's thinking, that is, the self's sense of responsibility for and > > yielding to the other in the community. The second sense may touch upon > the > attitude one adopts in the face of the impossible, the unrepresentable, > or > the unpresentable (such as death). I mean to explore different projects > of > addressing the self/other relationship in the postcolonial > community--different from antagonism or politics of difference. For the > > second sense, I am also welcoming ideas that touch upon the reality of > globalization--therefore, maybe desire in the capitalist system can also > be > read as something un(re)presentable? > > Any insight, advice, or comments will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in > > advance. > > c.y. > ************************************************************************* Jennifer Williams Assistant Instructor Department of English University of Texas at Austin "O my body, make of me always a [wo]man who questions!" --Fanon [my appropriation] http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~williams/e314l --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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