audiobook Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory; Culture and Race by Robert J.C. Young in Arts-Photography

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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 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.