Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media

by Robert Stam and Ella Shohat

Book Overview

Unthinking Eurocentrism, a seminal and award-winning work in postcolonial studies first published in 1994, explored Eurocentrism as an interlocking network of buried premises, embedded narratives, and submerged tropes that constituted a broadly shared epistemology. Within a transdisciplinary study, the authors argued that the debates about Eurocentrism and post/coloniality must be considered within a broad historical sweep that goes at least as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415538610
• ISBN13: 9780415538619
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 486 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

A Provocative, Seminal Work

I started reading Unthinking Eurocentrism one night and couldn't sleep until I had finished it. Shohat and Stam's briliantly written, often witty, book is an intellectual page turner. I plan to read it again.

A Majestic, empowering work

As a social science student, I found this book invaluable in its incisive exposure of Eurocentrism. The authors treat the subject in a mature manner, and offer an alternative, that of decentering the discussion and making it multi-centric rather than Euro-centric. This book is sensitively written and does not offend Europeans, but seeks to reveal the hidden ways in which Eurocentrism manifests itself. I experienced the reading of this book as liberating and as a validation of my own thinking. I read a university library copy, but I intend to purchase a copy for my children to read - and to refer back to time and time again. It is a timeless work.