Colonial Desire - Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race

Informationen zum Autor Young, Robert J. C. Klappentext The language of contemporary cultural theory shows remarkable similarities to the patterns of thought which characterized the Victorian's views of race. Far from being marked by a separation from the racialized thinking of the past, "Colonial Desire" illustrates how 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Robert Young, Robert J. C. Young, Robert J.C. Young, Young Robert J. C.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.1994
• EAN: 9780415053747
• ISBN: 978-0-415-05374-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; 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