Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 17:59:15 +0100
From: Liam Connell <L.Connell-AT-herts.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: postcolonialism and plagiarism


Cambridge by Caryl Philips borrows heavily from 18th Century Caribbean 
travelogues and Evelyn O'Callaghan has written well about it in "Historical 
Fiction and Fictional History, Caryl Phillips' _Cambridge_." _Journal of 
Commonwealth Literature_ 28.2 (1993): 34-47.

At 01:17 11/10/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>         I haven't written to this list in a long time, although I still 
> try to keep up with the posts.
>
>I'm putting together a reading list on, as the subject line says, 
>postcolonialism and plagiarism that attempts to think not only about the 
>ways in which colonialism has been, both theoretically and 
>administratively, described as a project of reproduction but that looks 
>also at texts that have been, either demonstrably or accused of, 
>plagiarism. For example, a key text on the list is Yambo Ouologuem's Bound 
>to Violence, parts of which were plagiarised from other novels and 
>historical surveys. Ouologuem later published an essay in which he offered 
>not only a structural analysis of plagiarism but a set of instructions on 
>how African authors could plagiarise to challenge the colonial project.
>
>I'm wondering if people on this list have suggestions for literary texts, 
>either from the colonies/postcolonies or from the "center," that borrowed 
>across the colonial line. I can't imagine that many will be as rich as the 
>Ouologuem example, and although I haven't yet been ready to move to more 
>metaphorical uses of plagiarism as influence, homage, borrowing, 
>rewriting, writing back, etc., i would be happy to hear suggestions that 
>perhaps moved in those directions beyond, say, revisions of the tempest 
>and robinson crusoe.
>
>Looking forward to suggestions,
>
>Joey Slaughter
>
>
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