Re: [Foucault-L] new member intro and a query

Robert Young devotes chapters to Foucault in both White Mythologies: 
Writing HIstory and the West and his more recent Postcolonialism: An 
Historical Introduction.  And Homi Bhabha, in a very interesting argument, 
accuses Foucault of reinscribing a universalist, Eurocentric, even 
ahistorical discourse in Location of Culture; Partha Chatterjee also 
discusses that angle in The Nation and Its Fragments.

Hope some of that is helpful to you--  Shannon

Shannon Winnubst
Assoc. Prof. of Philosophy
Dept. of Religion & Philosophy
Southwestern University


At 11:44 a.m. 3/8/2005 -0500, you wrote:
> 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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