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White mythologies : writing history and the west
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White mythologies : writing history and the west

Author: Robert Young
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : Document   Computer File : English : 2nd edView all editions and formats
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Is it possible, Young aks, to write history that avoids the trap of Eurocentrism? Is history simply a Western myth? This edition of this reflection on these topics features a substantial essay  Read more...

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Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Computer File, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Robert Young
ISBN: 0415311802 9780415311809 0415311810 9780415311816
OCLC Number: 53458855
Description: xv, 287 p. ; 24 cm.
Details: System requirements for PC users: Internet Explorer 5.5 and above, Adobe Acrobat reader 6.0.2 and above. For Mac users: Safari 1.2 and above, Adobe Acrobat reader 7.0 and above.
Contents: Foreword / Homi K. Bhabha --
White mythologies revisited --
1. White mythologies --
2. Marxism and the question of history --
3. Sartre's extravagances --
4. The scientific critique of historicism --
5. Foucault's phantasmas --
6. The Jameson raid --
7. Disorienting Orientalism --
8. The ambivalence of Bhabha --
9. Spivak : decolonization, deconstruction.
Responsibility: Robert J.C. Young.
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