Date: 	Sun, 16 Jul 1995 13:04:39 -1000
Subject: Said's Culture and Imperialism 


I found Said's Culture and Imperialism very exciting but as the months 
pass and I think about its effect it seems to me more and more to be a 
very anti-progressive work. It has the consequence of showing one more 
time just how "important" those same old familiar texts really are.

I wonder if our work is not to ignore Dickins, Conrad, Austin and those
other monuments to demonstrate to each other that who we are is not 
dependent upon our understanding of them. As long as we keep them so 
central to our stories about ourselves, I suspect we keep the same social 
formations that produced them and our desire to interpret them firmly in 
place.

Houston Wood	hwood-AT-uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
Dept. of English  UH Manoa, Hawai`i
Honolulu, HI 96822  (808) 956-3059



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