why not emigrate

joanna bujes joanna.bujes at ebay.sun.com
Thu Jun 6 09:48:50 PDT 2002


At 08:24 PM 06/05/2002 -0400, dennis redmond wrote:
>I could be wrong, but I suspect GST is intensely autobiographical -- every
>line probes a post-colonial wound. It's the kind of text which either
>kills or cures its author, the Indian version of Sadawi's brilliant Woman
>at Point Zero or Can Xue's dazzling Yellow Mud Street; the inflection
>point of a whole culture, the moment when the Congress Party and
>neo-nationalism stopped being a viable utopian project, and a
>multinational resistance was born.

Yeah, it struck me as autobiographical too. Thanks for the recommendations for the other books.

Joanna



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