Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 03:37:47 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: International education in postcolonial literature


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Dear Rebecca
I think you may find something useful in the theory and book of OCCIDENTOSIS: A Plague From The West by the Iranian writer Jalal Al-e Ahmad.  Al-e Ahmad approaches the concept of occidentosis as a contaminating social malady with two aspects, the "accident from without" and its need to spread "in an environment rendered susceptible to it" Occidentosis is hierarchically scematised. The relation between the origin of the disease, its carriers and sufferers can best be conceptualised as pyramidal; its zenith occupied by the West; the centre constituted by Iranian elite and the base comprised of Iranian society in general. 
 As a bold spokesman who dared to question Pahlavi Government policy, Al-e Ahmad attacks the educational system of Iran (propagated by the Returnees from the West) during the 1960's, an era of tremendous socio economic upheaval and political metamorphosis during which traditional values were rapidly replaced by Western ones. As a result of the modernisation project followed by Shah Mohammad Reza and his regime, a project which disregarded traditional values, Iranian society entered a state of cultural crisis. 
For an analysis of Al-e AHmad's work see Merhzad Borojerdi's Iranian Intellectuals... and Hamid Dabashi's Theology of Discontent
Mohammad 
Dr Mohammad Tavallaei
Department of English
The University of Urmia
Urmia, IRAN

 
 
Rebecca Fenton <rebecca.fenton-AT-excite.com> wrote:Hi all,

I'm doing some research into international education in postcolonial literature, specifically colonised children who go to the colonising country/culture for education. I can come up with plenty of fictional examples of this, for example, in the writing of Mukheerjee, Achebe, Naipaul, etc. I'm now on the hunt for theoretical works that deal with this issue and also biographical/autobiographical accounts of this phenomenon any ideas?

Rebecca


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Dear Rebecca

I think you may find something useful in the theory and book of OCCIDENTOSIS: A Plague From The West by the Iranian writer Jalal Al-e Ahmad.  Al-e Ahmad approaches the concept of occidentosis as a contaminating social malady with two aspects, the "accident from without" and its need to spread "in an environment rendered susceptible to it" Occidentosis is hierarchically scematised. The relation between the origin of the disease, its carriers and sufferers can best be conceptualised as pyramidal; its zenith occupied by the West; the centre constituted by Iranian elite and the base comprised of Iranian society in general.

 As a bold spokesman who dared to question Pahlavi Government policy, Al-e Ahmad attacks the educational system of Iran (propagated by the Returnees from the West) during the 1960's, an era of tremendous socio economic upheaval and political metamorphosis during which traditional values were rapidly replaced by Western ones. As a result of the modernisation project followed by Shah Mohammad Reza and his regime, a project which disregarded traditional values, Iranian society entered a state of cultural crisis.
For an analysis of Al-e AHmad's work see Merhzad Borojerdi's Iranian Intellectuals... and Hamid Dabashi's Theology of Discontent

Mohammad

Dr Mohammad Tavallaei
Department of English
The University of Urmia
Urmia, IRAN

Rebecca Fenton <rebecca.fenton-AT-excite.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I'm doing some research into international education in postcolonial literature, specifically colonised children who go to the colonising country/culture for education. I can come up with plenty of fictional examples of this, for example, in the writing of Mukheerjee, Achebe, Naipaul, etc. I'm now on the hunt for theoretical works that deal with this issue and also biographical/autobiographical accounts of this phenomenon any ideas?

Rebecca


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