White Mythologies: Writing History and the West, 2nd Edition

✍ Scribed by Robert J. C. Young

• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 304
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In 1990, Robert Young's White Mythologies set out to question the very concepts of history and the West. His reflections on these topics provided some of the most important new directions in postcolonial studies and continue to exert a huge influence on the field. This new edition reprints what has quickly become a classic text, along with a substantial new essay reflecting on changes in the field and in the author's own position since publication.An essential read for all those working in postcolonial theory, literature and history, this book cemented Young's reputation as one of the discipline's most influential scholars and, as a new preface by Homi Bhabha comments, made an original and invaluable intervention in the field, leading even the most established figures to rethink their own positions. Provoking further re-evaluation with the new introductory essay, this second edition will, like its predecessor, be a key text for every academic and student in the field.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Foreword......Page 9
Preface to the First Edition......Page 11
Note to the Second Edition......Page 16
White Mythologies Revisited......Page 17
1. White mythologies......Page 49
2. Marxism and the question of history......Page 70
3. Sartre's Extravagances......Page 78
4. The scientific critique of historicism......Page 100
5. Foucault's Phantasms......Page 122
6. The Jameson raid......Page 145
7. Disorienting Orientalism......Page 175
8. The ambivalence of Bhabha......Page 198
9. Spivak: decolonization, deconstruction......Page 216
Notes......Page 236
Bibliography......Page 266
Index......Page 284