Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race / Edition 1

by Robert J. C. Young

Overview

The language of contemporary cultural theory shows remarkable similarities with the patterns of thought which characterised Victorian racial theory. Far from being marked by a separation from the racialised thinking of the past, Colonial Desire shows we are operating in complicity with historical ways of viewing 'the other', both sexually and racially.

Colonial Desire is a controversial and bracing study of the history of Englishness and 'culture'. Robert Young argues that the theories advanced today about post-colonialism and ethnicity are disturbingly close to the colonial discourse of the nineteenth century. 'Englishness', Young argues, has been less fixed and stable than uncertain, fissured with difference and a desire for otherness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415053747
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/15/1994
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Young, Robert J. C.

Table of Contents

1 HYBRIDITY AND DIASPORA 2 CULTURE AND THE HISTORY OF DIFFERENCE 3 THE COMPLICITY OF CULTURE: ARNOLD’S ETHNOGRAPHIC POLITICS 4 SEX AND INEQUALITY: THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF RACE 5 EGYPT IN AMERICA, THE CONFEDERACY IN LONDON 111 6 WHITE POWER, WHITE DESIRE: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF MISCEGENATION 7 COLONIALISM AND THE DESIRING MACHINE

Editorial Reviews

'Original insightful and documented.' - Prof A Viola, Nice University, Nice, France

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