Colonial Desire - Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race

List 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

About the author

Young, Robert J. C.

Summary

In this controversial and bracing study, Robert Young argues that today's theories on post-colonialism and ethnicity are disturbingly close to the colonial discourse of the nineteenth century. An original and exciting work.

Product details

• Authors: Robert J. C. Young, Young Robert J. C.
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.1994
• EAN: 9780415053730
• ISBN: 978-0-415-05373-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Weight: 630 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Anthropology, ART / Popular Culture, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Colonialism and imperialism, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary theory, National liberation and independence, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity