Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race
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 'culture'. Robert Young argues that the theories...
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The language of contemporary cultural theory shows remarkable similarities to the patterns of thought which characterized the Victorian's views of race. Far from being marked by a separation from the racialized thinking of the past, Colonial Desire illustrates how 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 "culture." Robert Young argues that the theories advanced today about post-colonialism and ethnicity are disturbingly close to the colonial discourse of the nineteenth century. "Englishness," Young argues, has been less fixed and stable than uncertain, fissured with difference and a desire for otherness.
List of platesList of tablesPreface: South PacificAcknowledgements1Hybridity and Diaspora12Culture and the History of Difference293The Complicity of Culture: Arnold's Ethnographic Politics554Sex and Inequality: The Cultural Construction of Race905Egypt in America, the Confederacy in London1186White Power, White Desire: The Political Economy of Miscegenation1427Colonialism and the Desiring Machine159Notes183Bibliography206Index226
