American Colonialism

[Paul Mackin]

Got a copy of an old reaings book used at Berkeley in the 50s for English
100 (upper division lit crit course). Not a single nonEnglish based writer
is represented with the exception of Plato and Aristotle. Times they have
a changed. The editors of the book were pretty well known names of the
time--Josephine Miles, Mark Schorer and Gordon McKenzie--all of whom had
taught the course.
			P.

				

On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Conrad Anexoukai Apexou wrote:

> Foucault and another Frenchman, Jacques Derrida, are the
> great idols of Rococo Marxism in America. Could it be
> otherwise? Today, a throughout the twentieth century, our
> intellectuals remain sweaty little colonials, desperately
> trotting along, trying to catch up with the way the idols do
> it in France, which is through Theory, Theory, Theory. In
> this pursuit, some colonials inevitably run faster than
> others, and leading the pack currently are two academics,
> Stanley Fish and Judith Butler. 
> 
> IN THE LAND OF THE ROCOCO : Why is no one
> celebrating the Second American century? Harper's Magazine,
> Tom Wolfe.
>