_A Critique of Postcolonial Reason_ (1)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Jim:
>The marginal man theory was particularly directed at those mission
>educated African intellectuals who were inspired to promote national
>movements. The race implications of the theory are pointed - nothing but
>disaster can come through mixing the races.
>
>Isn't this akin to what Spivak is saying about the 'native informant',
>or what Postcolonial studies says about the 'subaltern' - that those who
>cross the race line are especially pathological?

You must have mistaken Spivak for V. S. Naipaul.  [An aside to Doug &
Katha: See, there is such a thing as an utterly incorrect interpretation,
even in literary criticism.]

Yoshie