Re: [Foucault-L] new member intro and a query

Robert Young devotes chapters to Foucault in both White Mythologies: Writing HIstory and the West and his more recent Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction. And Homi Bhabha, in a very interesting argument, accuses Foucault of reinscribing a universalist, Eurocentric, even ahistorical discourse in Location of Culture; Partha Chatterjee also discusses that angle in The Nation and Its Fragments.

Hope some of that is helpful to you-- Shannon

Shannon Winnubst
Assoc. Prof. of Philosophy
Dept. of Religion & Philosophy
Southwestern University

At 11:44 a.m. 3/8/2005 -0500, you wrote:

Foucauldians:

I just thought that I'd take a second to introduce myself: I do work in interdisciplinary colonial and postcolonial New World studies; specifically, I'm interested in the first couple of centuries after Columbus and the ways in which Early Modern New World writing tried to come to grips with the new.

From that, you can probably guess the nature of my query: I've become more and more interested in Foucault as I've working on my projects. It's now time for me to move from reading the occasional piece to a more thorough-going reading of some of his major works (Les mots et les choses, L'archeologie du savoir, Surveiller et punir, and La volonte du savoir are currently on by bookshelf), and that's pretty much my project for the next chunk of reading time. In addition, though, and this is where my query originates, I was curious if the listmembers were familiar with any interesting works that try to bring Foucault to bear on colonial and postcolonial discourse in any meaningful way. Obviously, I know about Said, and I've recently found out about Ann Laura Stoler's work. Does anyone have any other recommendations?

Thanks, in advance, for any suggestions.

Best,

Keith

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