crux of the matter

 Stein and Andreiotti assert “Firmly committed to the need to link historical and ongoing injustices, post-colonial studies represents an effort to conceptualize and critique how and why even re-configured global relations (social, economic, political) reproduce colonial hierarchies and hegemonies”  This assertion seems to demonstrate what is to be a very difficult feat.

The following condition seems to be at the crux of the matter: the difference between power and representation of power is part of the problem that will be addressed here. The condition is about “the false and disabling distinction between colonization as a system of rule, of power and exploitation, and colonization as a system of knowledge and presentation”   Colonization as a ruling situation presents real power.  Re-presentation of a better life for the subaltern is typically done by representations which re-establish and fortify colonial power and discourse. The path to creating a change in power structures is found in the representations given by the postcolonial discourse.  Having that representation or discourse represent without presenting the same power structures is difficult and involves language which is an attempt at escaping this dilemma.

 

Overall the best “intent is not to then replace these (failures to represent, but using existing terminologies, ethnographies, epistemologies, etc) approaches with ‘better’ alternatives but, rather, to examine the desires, investments, imaginaries and assumptions that underlie them” Here is the tall task for the postcolonial scholar. Climbing the mountain further to get a better vista is needed.                          

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