Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 07:48:21 -0400 (EDT) From: bhaatasari <gajjala+-AT-pitt.edu> Subject: Re: another thread - a genuine request for help When V.Ritter asked about biblio ref to Chatterjee's work on women and the nation, I forgot to mention the book on "The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories" by Partha Chatterjee (1993)Princeton Univ Press. For those of you are familiar with this work - what do you think of his conclusion to the chapter on Women and the Nation (esp the `A Pessimistic Afterword' section and the para before - part of which i quote below...) " ..the story of nationalist emancipation is necessarily a story of betrayal. Because it could confer freedom only by imposing at the same time a whole set of new controls, it could define a cultural identity for the nation only by excluding many from its fold; and it could grant the dignity of citizenship to some only because the others always needed to be represented and and could not be allowed to speak for themselves.....relations between the people and the nation, the nation and the state, relations which nationalism claims to have resolved once and for all, are relations which continue to be contested and are therefore open to negotiation all over again." page 155. (and yes this also related to the cliterodectomy issue, since we know that that was made a very focal/central point for nationalism - from both the nationalist side and the colonizers' side...) _______________________________________________________ homepage: http://www.pitt.edu/~rxgst6/jabberwocky.html for now sa-cyborgs archives can be viewed at: http://www.pitt.edu/~gajjala/sacyborgs _______________________________________________________
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