Post-colonial Lit, magical realism, etc.

[Gillies, Lindsay]

I don't know the Jameson article, but I've found his work tremendously 
creative otherwise...I'd suggest this synthesis:

How political is GR? (let's deal with the high octane...)
1. A completely apolitical literature is only possible from within the 
dominating culture.
2. Politics in non-first-world literature is almost always a factor, even if 
by obvious omission.  When your nose is being ground into the dust one way 
or another, its hard to ignore.  Grinders, on the other hand, actually have 
an incentive to ignore the grinding.
3. GR is definitely from within the dominating culture, even if Tyrone gets 
turning into a piece of sh__ and flushed away.
4. TP is aware of many political issues, but does not treat them as 
primarily political.
5. He is, rather, concerned with history.
6. TP certainly emphasizes the individualistic psychological preoccupations 
of the (post-(post-...(modernist))) writer in the first world.
7. The combination of obsession with history and individual psychology 
causes a secondary apparition of "politics", which is the sum of individual 
activity within the context of history (the group's story through time.)
8. But one could not say that TP is concerned with politics in any primary 
way.

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