Colonial Desire

Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race

Author: Robert J. C. Young
ISBN: 0415053749

The 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.

Publisher: Routledge
Publish Date: 2005-08-05

Subjects: Art / Popular Culture, Literary Criticism / General, Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory

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