Vol.8, No 1, 2010 pp. 47 - 62
UDC 821.111(73).09
'PLAY UP, PLAY UP, AND PLAY THE GAME': ON GLOBALIZATION, MULTICULTURALISM AND UNIVERSITY
Lena Petrović
Department of English, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš
E-mail: lnpetrovic@gmail.com
Play up, play up and play the game!', a quotation from Pinter's Birthday Party, is used to introduce a discussion of what I consider more or less sophisticated games whose purpose is to mask or blur the economic realities of globalization, particularly those played within the academic institution called Postcolonial studies. As opposed to this compromised, consensual position, there has also been an increasingly stronger and organized oppositional tendency, not only outside but also within university, of which The Cultures of Globalization, a 1998 publication of the 1996 conference papers on 'Globalization and Culture', is one of noteworthy examples. In the second part of my paper I draw on, among others, some of the contributors' arguments, because they allow what in our academic environment seems to be unthinkable or unsayable to be finally thought and said.
Key words: Games, globalization, post-colonialism, ulticulturalism/cosmopolitanism, Homi Bhabha, Frantz Fanon, Harold Pinter
'IGRAJ IGRU DO KRAJA': O GLOBALIZACIJI, POSTKOLONIJALNIM STUDIJAMA I UNIVERZITETU
"Igraj igru do kraja!” fraza je preuzeta iz Pinterove drame Rodjendanska proslava, a u radu se koristi kao uvod u raspravu o manje ili više sofisticiranim izgovorima ili teorijama kojima se pribegava da bi se maskirala ekonomska stvarnost globalizacije. Nasuprot ovim igrama kompromisa, u koje spadaju i institucionalizovane 'mainstram' postkolonijalne studije, takodje se sve više oseća, i ne samo u vanakademskom kontekstu, uticaj opozicionih tendencija. Jedan paznje vredan primer je svakako konferencija 'Globalizacija i kultura' odrzana 1996 pod pokroviteljstvom Kalifornijskog univerziteta. Neki od argumenata iz priloga objavljenih u zborniku konferencije tema su drugog dela ovog rada, kao podsticaj da se promisli i iskaže ono što se do sada u našoj akademskoj teoriji i praksi smatralo nezamislivim i neizrecivim.
Ključne reči: igre, globalizacija, post-kolonijaliza, multikulturalizam/kosmopolitanizam, Homi Bhabha, Frantz Fanon, Harold Pinter