Colonialism and sexual choice

[Doug Millison]

_Dangerous Women: Gender & Korean Nationalism_ edited by Elaine H. 
Kim and Chungmoo Choi, and _Sex Among Allies:  Military Prostitution 
in U.S.-Korea Relations_ by Katharine H.S. Moon, have much to say 
about the nexus of sexuality and colonialism in another part of the 
world oppressed by Europeans, Americans, and through the U.N. 
presence I suppose even a few of those fun-lovin' Australians.

Some P-listers may be interested in another book that sheds light on 
the area of colonial relations:  _"Exterminate All the Brutes": One 
Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European 
Genocide_, by SvenLindqvist.

Not to mention the book by Fanon that Dave Monroe has been 
encouraging us to consider, the book that is itself considered by 
some to be a foundational text in postcolonial studies.

At 10:13 PM +0200 9/10/00, Otto Sell wrote:
>Great post, Doug
>
>just this:
>
>"They grabbed what they could get for the sake of what was to be got. It was
>just robbery with violence, aggrevated murder on a great scale, and men
>going at it blind - as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness. The
>conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who
>have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not
>a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea
>only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretence but an idea; and
>an unselfish belief in the idea - something you can set up, and bow down
>before, and offer a sacrifice to . . ."
>(Josef Conrad: Heart of Darkness)
>
>Are there Dutch or Belgian p-listers who remember Jef Geeraerts "Black
>Venus" - just to mention a negative example of colonial and post-colonial
>writing.
>
>Otto

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