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Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.800941
EAN: 9780415053747
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0415053749
Label: Routledge
Manufacturer: Routledge
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 236
Publication Date: January 12, 1995
Publisher: Routledge
Studio: Routledge
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Editorial Review:
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.
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Rating: - Wonderful insights imbedded in almost inpenetrable jargon
Comment on "COLONIAL DESIRE" by Robert J. C. Young by Jan HaagHow dare you make sex so boring?
When all you want to point out is
Europe's attraction to the beautiful, often
willing, native women (and men),that must be hypocritized so
that the whites (mainly) could go on
"teaching," raping and pillaging, gleaning the wealth
of others lands, killing fathers and mothers of their chosen mates,
disowning their hybrid children,
like our own ... Read More
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