Colonial Desire

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Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race

By: Robert J. C. Young

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Paperback | 15 December 1994 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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..."[This] is a book that everyone interested in the interconnected history of the modern concepts of race, culture, sexuality, and empire should read.." -"American Historical Review "Colonial Desire is an indespensable study, a work that reflects the needs of our current situation. Colonial Desire will begin much needed debates about the terminology of postcolonialism, as well as the so-far unstudied issue of "colonial desire."" -"Journal of Caribbean Studies ...""Colonial Desire is a valuable resource for gender studies." -Shalini Purl, "Signs ..."an important work." -"Canadian Historical Review

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