Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race

by Robert J.C. Young

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415053749
• ISBN13: 9780415053747
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"