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From: Abikal Borah <aborah@utexas.edu>
Date: April 27, 2018 at 8:49:28 PM CDT
To: Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - human rights issues
This conversation is based on a mistaken reading of Spivak as well as postcolonial theory as a form of conceptual critique. Bhabha has shown phenomenal dexterity in reading Fanon's Wretched of the Earth as a postcolonial text. Africa has been and will always be in the center of postcolonial reason. However, I would be interested ask how do we read the usage of the sign postcolonial in the way Spivak uses it. To the best of my knowledge, she has always used the sign postcolonial as a mode of critique rather fixing the sign to a commonplace understanding of a certain temporal frame. The distinction is a very useful one for the beginners.
Best,Abikal
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018, 8:20 PM Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
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From: "'Biko Agozino' via USA Africa Dialogue Series" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Date: April 27, 2018 at 8:02:09 PM CDT
To: "usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - human rights issues
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Her speeches make more sense than her performative superiorist texts. See my criticism of one of her books: pardon the typos, should read 'or' not 'of' theory of recolonization:
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On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 8:53 PM, Emeagwali, Gloria (History)<emeagwali@ccsu.edu> wrote:--"....... Spivak's eclectic and often contradictory critical scope resembles her shifting position as an academic "subject." Simultaneously privileged as an elite, even esoteric intellectual currently teaching at Columbia University, and marginalized as a "Third-World woman," "hyphenated-American," and Bengali exile, Spivak uses deconstruction to address the ways in which she is in fact complicit in the production of social formations that she ostensibly opposes."
Brown
After listening to five of Spivak's lectures, thanks to you tube, I have to say that
the above description of Spivak seems quite appropriate. "Eclectic and contradictory" sums it all up- subject to new information.
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