So, hit and run, huh, Christopher? How about explaining what you mean, and
that'll give us a chance to respond in kind. Hear you in a couple weeks,
then.
Judy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Walker" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: New Orleans Prisoners left to drown
> <snip>
> "Refugee" connotes (denotes?) people seeking refuge from another country.
> <snip>
>
> Whilst diminishment through this sort of term has a long, dishonourable
> tradition, something else may be happening here: on the one hands claims
> upon Great Events In History to heroicise the disaster (as with September
> 11) into some sort of sublime; on the other, a redrawing of the
> imaginative
> boundaries to put what has actually happened a little beyond the pale.
>
> So I'm not surprised people are angry. Some of the public emotion (at
> least
> as reported) has seemed to me not empathetic so much as mawkish, a kind of
> sentimentality from which those involved are excluded.
>
> Not, I trust, too provocative. (I'm going offline for about two weeks, so
> shan't be able to respond.)
>
> CW
>
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>
> 'To rob a man of his language in the name of language is the first step in
> all legal murders' (Barthes)
>
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