[lit-ideas] Re: Colonial Modern Art and Propaganda
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:13:17 -0500
Here's a handful of steaming Bhabha.
Referring to the way formerly colonized
populations adapt, accept, and reject aspects of
the colonizing culture -- even passing the hybrid
melange to yet other cultures -- the enormous
windbag describes:
"part-objects of a metonymy of colonial desire,
end up emerging as inappropriate colonial
subjects...[who], by now producing a partial
vision of the colonizer's presence, de-stabilize
the colonial subjectivity, unsettle its
authoritative centrality, and corrupt its
discursive purity." (p. 88)
That kind of nonsense is so fashionable, it's hard
to avoid. I enter the liminality of cultural
ambivalence ordering a pizza and see no need to
privilege the European colonizers.
Forgive the tone of my post, John. I sometimes
forget that you are a real anthropologist with
real human interests, and not a brain-in-a-vat
theorist masking an ideology of resentment behind
Lacanian or Foucaultian ink stains.
Eric
_____
Bhabha, Homi. Location of Culture. London:
Routledge, 1995.
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