{"product_id":"colonial-desire-hybridity-in-theory-culture-and-race-9780415053730","title":"Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Young Robert J. C.\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Discrimination\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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, \u003cem\u003eColonial Desire\u003c\/em\u003e shows we are operating \u003cem\u003ein complicity\u003c\/em\u003e with historical ways of viewing 'the other', both sexually and racially. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eColonial Desire\u003c\/em\u003e 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.","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47616327811223,"sku":"9780415053730","price":12915.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780415053730.webp?v=1775112616","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/colonial-desire-hybridity-in-theory-culture-and-race-9780415053730","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}