Re: Southern vs. Northern violence
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?
Doug