Colonial Desire Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race

Name: Colonial Desire Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race
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ISBN: 9780415053747

ISBN-10: 0415053749

ISBN-13: 9780415053747

Edition: 1994

Authors: Robert J. C. Young

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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 Desireillustrates how we are operatingin complicitywith historical ways of viewing "the other," both sexually and racially. Colonial Desireis 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…

Book details

List price: $48.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 1/12/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of plates


List of tables


Preface: South Pacific


Acknowledgements



Hybridity and Diaspora



Culture and the History of Difference



The Complicity of Culture: Arnold's Ethnographic Politics



Sex and Inequality: The Cultural Construction of Race



Egypt in America, the Confederacy in London



White Power, White Desire: The Political Economy of Miscegenation



Colonialism and the Desiring Machine


Notes


Bibliography


Index