Subject: Re: East is east
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:05:51 GMT



dear priti,

thanks for the fanon reference--i shall change my mask accordingly.

my understanding of the explanation you provide for spivak 101, is that it 
has nothing to do with south asia. it comes, i believe, from voltaire, 
describing southern europeans' fascination of things english.

> >
>
>The best non-academic explanation I can provide is: many in the South Asian
>community speak disparagingly of others in their community as "cocconuts:
>brown on the outside, white on the inside."
>

the chinese have two terms--banana and boiled eggs. one is yellow outside, 
white inside, the other is white outside yellow inside.

that's neither here nor there: my point is that i'd find it easier to deal 
with ayub khan din being called a coconut by critics who have (a) seen the 
film; and (b) who can successfully explain how he could be a coconut, when 
he has taken such a strong line against enoch powell and his type of 
politics in the film.

salil

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