[lbo-talk] Southern vs. Northern violence

[ravi]

On 7 May, 2007, at 11:57 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> On May 7, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Miles Jackson wrote:
>
>>  Do you see honor as a way for
>> colonized people to maintain some sense of worth?
>
> Yeah. It was purely speculative, but I was wondering if a
> hypersensitivity about honor on a personal level is a compensation
> for external humiliations. Purely on the basis of received
> stereotypes, it seems that Latin American and Middle Eastern cultures
> are very honor-centric. Isn't the anticolonial literature full of
> imagery about how being colonized is emasculating, and kind of akin
> to, um, anal penetration?
>

Do you mean anti-colonial literature from Latin America and Middle  
East (what a strange name -- middle east?!), or anti-colonial  
literature in general? In either case, I would be surprised as much  
by a lack of such as by its dominating ("full of imagery") the  
literature. Is Western culture/literature any different when it comes  
to emasculation, anal penetration, etc? For instance, check out the  
recent HRW report on prison rape in the United States.

It seems both unnecessary and suspicious to exoticise theorisation of  
this or that foreign culture, as Galloway did on your radio show,  
surprisingly with your agreement, regarding Arab/Muslim reactions and  
their adopting the master narrative regarding their own worth -- as  
Feyerabend might have said, what colourful arias to explain  
[avoiding] the obvious!

	--ravi