About: "Fictions of the interlude, colourfully covering the torpor and sloth of our underlying disbelief." -- Pessoa
“Today, when ‘Westernization’ has become a pejorative word, there have reappeared on the stage subtler and more sophisticated means of acculturation. They produce not merely models of conformity but also models of ‘official’ dissent. It is possible today to be anti-colonial in a way which is specified and promoted by the modern world view as ‘proper’, ‘sane’ and ‘rational’. Even when in opposition, that dissent remains predictable and controlled. It is also possible today to opt for a non-West which itself is a construction of the West. One can then choose between being the Orientalist’s despot, to combine Karl Wittfogel with Edward Said, and the revolutionary’s loving subject, to combine Camus with George Orwell. And for those who do not like the choice, there is, of course, Cecil Rhodes’ and Rudyard Kipling’s noble, half-savage half-child, compared to whom the much-hated Brown Sahib seems more brown than sahib. Even in enmity these choices remain forms of homage to the victors. Let us not forget that the most violent denunciation of the West produced by Frantz Fanon is written in the elegant style of a Jean-Paul Sartre. The West has not merely produced modern colonialism, it informs most interpretations of colonialism. It colours even this interpretation of interpretation.”
—Ashis Nandy, The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism, 1983.
kaash said:
“They produce not merely models of conformity but also models of ‘official’ dissent.”—every “dept. of PoCo” ever.It’s always a subject that needs 2 be addressed in a special context;you don’t just bring up PoCo when you’re studying in a white space.
kaash said:
“They produce not merely models of conformity but also models of ‘official’ dissent.”—every “dept. of PoCo” ever.It’s always a subject that needs 2 be addressed in a special context;you don’t just bring up PoCo when you’re studying in a white space.
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