Colonial Desire

Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race
1. Auflage 1994
ISBN: 978-0-415-05374-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 406 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Young, Robert J C

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Umwelt und Kultur, Kulturökologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

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

Über Autor(innen)

Young, Robert J. C.