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Name White Mythologies by Robert J.C. Young

Title White Mythologies

Author Robert J.C. Young

Publisher Routledge

Pub. Date Aug 16, 2004

Format Hardcover

Language English

ISBN-10 0415311802

ISBN-13 9780415311809

Subject General

Original MSRP $120.00

Description In the first edition of White Mythologies (1990) Robert Young challenged the

status of history, asking whether in this postmodern era we should consider it

a Western myth, with an uncertain status. Is it, he asked, possible to write

history that avoids the trap of Eurocentrism?Investigating the history of

History, from Hegel to Foucault, White Mythologies calls into question

traditional accounts of a single 'World History' which leaves aside the 'Third

World' as surplus to the narrative of the West. Young goes on to consider

questionings of the limits of Western knowledge in the work of Edward Said,

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Homi Bhabha. For Young, these thinkers

have been involved in a project to decolonize History and to deconstruct 'the

West'. In exploring these issues, he shows us the relation of history to theory

and of politics to knowledge.

White Mythologies has proved to be one of the most important critical works

in post-colonial theory of the last two decades. It has engendered much debate

and inspired countless critical responses. Twelve years after publication,

Robert Young returns to the issues raised in this book to offer fresh

perspectives and to reflect upon developments in the post-colonial debate

since White Mythologies was first published.

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