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From: Nathaniel Roberts <npr4@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:04:59 +0000
Well, now that we're talking about critiques of Foucault from a
postcolonial perspective, I'd have to add Gayatri Spivak's "Can the
Subaltern Speak?" It is worth following up the references in that article,
though, because I think they tell a rather different story than the one she
draws out (specifically, there is a good article by Paul Bove that she
refers to).
-Nate
At 07:12 PM 3/8/2005, you wrote:
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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