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White Mythologies
This has become one of the most important critical works in post-colonial theory of the last two decades. It has created debate and inspired many critical responses. This second edition returns to the issues to offer new developments and insights.
White Mythologies: Writing History and the West
The author argues that, if post-modernism marks the loss of centrality of European culture, nowhere has such a dislocation been more marked than in the status of history. He questions the limits of Western knowledge and the relevance of history as seen through the eyes of Western...
White Mythologies
Young's investigation of 'the history of History', from Hegel to Foucault, questions the Eurocentrism of traditional Marxist accounts of a single 'World History', in which the 'Third World' appears as an unassimilable excess.
White Mythologies
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...
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