On May 7, 2007, at 12:30 PM, ravi wrote:
> 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.
Eh? Prisons are not unlike colonies. We even call them penal colonies sometimes.
I surprised even myself by how many hits this gets: <http:// www.google.com/search?q=emasculation%20colonialism>.
> 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!
You mean it's wrong to explore what colonization does to individual and collective psyches? Presumably if colonization is bad, it has to have bad effects, or it's not so bad after all. I thought Galloway was exactly right in saying that 9/11 conspiracism in the Muslim world flows in part from a belief that only white guys could pull something like that off. A lot of white 9/11 conspiracists would agree, sadly.
What's that famous line from Steven Biko about the mind of the oppressed being the oppressor's ally?
Doug