Re: Southern vs. Northern violence
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:
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