{"id":8506,"date":"2010-08-26T04:42:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T04:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=8506"},"modified":"2011-08-11T13:33:25","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T13:33:25","slug":"colonial-desire-hybridity-in-theory-culture-and-race-2nd-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=8506","title":{"rendered":"Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race, 2nd Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.routledge.com\/books\/details\/9780415053747\/\" target=\"_blank\">Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race, 2nd Edition<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.routledge.com\" target=\"_blank\">Routledge<\/a><br \/>\n1994-12-14<br \/>\n248 pages<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-415-31183-0<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/robertjcyoung.com\" target=\"_blank\">Robert J. C. Young<\/a><\/strong>, Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature<br \/>\n<em>New York University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.routledge.com\/books\/details\/9780415311830\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.tandf.co.uk\/common\/jackets\/weblarge\/978041531\/9780415311830.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As one of the most important books in post-colonial studies, this book argues that contemporary theories on post-colonialism and ethnicity are disturbingly close to the colonial discourse of the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rather than marking ourselves off from patterns of thought which characterized Victorian racial theory, we show remarkable complicity with historical ways of viewing &#8216;the other&#8217;, both sexually and racially.<\/strong> &#8216;Englishness&#8217;, Young suggests, has been less fixed and stable than uncertain, fissured with difference and a desire for otherness.<\/p>\n<p>In this updated new edition, the author revisits the ideas set out in the book in light of recent developments in post-colonial theory, including projects influenced by his own work. With this fresh intervention, Robert Young is set once again to re-energize his field and open new channels of debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race, 2nd Edition Routledge 1994-12-14 248 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-31183-0 Robert J. C. Young, Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature New York University As one of the most important books in post-colonial studies, this book argues that contemporary theories on post-colonialism and ethnicity are disturbingly close to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,1196,8,17],"tags":[1067,564,420],"class_list":["post-8506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-monographs","tag-robert-j-c-young","tag-robert-young","tag-routledge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}