Re: further reflections

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Hiya
>
>Now as to howe I feel about other people following his line, it's not
>primarily a question of _their_ nationality.  But the chasing of
>non-Europeans after European avant-garde culture is an interesting
>phenomenon to explore, and it has a long history.

Ralph, do you see this long history as intimately tied up in colonialism?

   Race becomes important only because it is the marker of what
>is so obviously different about the western hemisphere, and its relation to
>Europe.

I wonder if you could explain what you mean in more detail.

>but race often marks the difference in
>intellectual projects and the painful relationship to one's Americanness.

I only half understand what you mean here.


>Now the rights and wrongs of James's judgment is not as important as the
>very fact of a difference in perspective.

And to what do you attribute this differance?


>himself, who introduced this topic, only one other person has shown the
>slightest comprehension of or interest in anything I've had to say.
>Perhaps it's time for me to throw in the towel.

Don't go!  At least not before you explain.


April


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