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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ISBN | 9780415053747 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | Kartonierter Einband (Kt) |
Verlag | Taylor and Francis |
Jahr | 19941215 |
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