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Routledge
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Routledge
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Routledge
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In 1990, Robert Young's White Mythologies set out to question the very concepts of history and the West. Is it possible, he asked, to write history that avoids the trap of Eurocentrism? Is history simply a Western myth? His reflections on these topics provided some of the most important new directions in postcolonial studies and continue to exert a huge influence on the field. This new edition... Read more
1 White mythologies 2 Marxism and the question of history 3 Sartre’s extravagances 4 The scientific critique of historicism 5 Foucault’s phantasms 6 The Jameson raid 7 Disorienting Orientalism 8 The ambivalence of Bhabha 9 Spivak: decolonization, deconstruction
Biography
Robert J.C. Young
