"[P]ostcolonial critics inevitably homogenize as 'imperialist' critics did before them. The difference is that they typically profess an awareness of the problematics to a degree the others did not."Subcategory B: Inadvertant Irony and Foregone Conclusions
"[Postcolonial cultural studies] involves a dialogue leading to the significant insight that the Western paradigm (Manichean and binary) is highly problematical."
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Now Rohan, it seems to me we've had words over this kind of thing before. You're being naughty here. You haven't even reported where you're drawing these quotations from and this entry as a whole risks the misunderstanding and misrepresentation that your masthead says your blog aims to correct. Naughty.
Maybe I just missed you, Toast.
I didn't name my sources so that if someone googles their names, my snark won't come up.
Now go away and be patronizing to someone else. What are you, my nanny?
Sorry, I don't mean to condescend, but you're a scholar, you know that presenting uncited sources as significant examples is an ethical breach. These passages you've quoted here could have been written by Bill O'Reilly, or by you yourself.
They both come from a generally well-regarded guide to literary theory. I don't know if they are "significant examples," but they certainly demonstrate some cheap reasoning. I stand by my decision not to name names (for ethical reasons of my own)--and by my right to be snarky occasionally, a right you clearly cherish as well, judging from your own blog.
That's certainly true, but then do you really aspire to my ethical standards?
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