Re: new member intro and a query

I think I remember Paul Rabinow's 'French Modern' carrying a chapter on 
the French colonial enterprise in the Maghreb region...
François

Keith Alan Sprouse a écrit :

> Foucauldians:
>
> I just thought that I'd take a second to introduce myself: I do work 
> in interdisciplinary colonial and postcolonial New World studies; 
> specifically, I'm interested in the first couple of centuries after 
> Columbus and the ways in which Early Modern New World writing tried to 
> come to grips with the new.
>
> From that, you can probably guess the nature of my query: I've become 
> more and more interested in Foucault as I've working on my projects. 
> It's now time for me to move from reading the occasional piece to a 
> more thorough-going reading of some of his major works (/Les mots et 
> les choses/, /L'archeologie du savoir/, /Surveiller et punir/, and /La 
> volonte du savoir/ are currently on by bookshelf), and that's pretty 
> much my project for the next chunk of reading time. In addition, 
> though, and this is where my query originates, I was curious if the 
> listmembers were familiar with any interesting works that try to bring 
> Foucault to bear on colonial and postcolonial discourse in any 
> meaningful way. Obviously, I know about Said, and I've recently found 
> out about Ann Laura Stoler's work. Does anyone have any other 
> recommendations?
>
> Thanks, in advance, for any suggestions.
>
> Best,
>
> Keith
>
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