Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and RaceThe 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. |
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Contents
1 HYBRIDITY AND DIASPORA | 1 |
2 CULTURE AND THE HISTORY OF DIFFERENCE | 27 |
3 THE COMPLICITY OF CULTURE | 53 |
4 SEX AND INEQUALITY | 85 |
5 EGYPT IN AMERICA THE CONFEDERACY IN LONDON | 111 |
6 WHITE POWER WHITE DESIRE | 133 |
7 COLONIALISM AND THE DESIRING MACHINE | 151 |
NOTES | 173 |
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| Title | Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race |
| Author | Robert J. C. Young |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2005 |
| ISBN | 1134938888, 9781134938889 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › Art / Popular Culture Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory Social Science / Biracial & Multiracial Studies Social Science / Human Sexuality Social Science / Race & Ethnic Relations |
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