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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415063248
• ISBN13: 9780415063241
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.7" x 8.9"
• 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.