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基本説明
Pub. delayed (Originally scheduled in Aug. 2003). White Mythologies has proved to be one of the most important critical works in post-colonial theory of the last two decades. Now, Young reflects upon developments in the post-colonial debate since this text was first published.
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We must, many now argue, `get back' to history. but which one? History has always been a problematical concept in Western theory, particularly for Marxism. In the wake of postmodernism, its status has become ever less certain. Is it possible to write history that avoids the trap of Eurocentrism?
Robert Young's investigation of 'the history of History', from Hegel and Marx to Althusser and Foucault, calls into question the Eurocentrism of traditional Marxist accounts of a single 'World History', in which, as he shows, the `Third World' appears as an unassimilable excess, surplus to the narrative of the West.
Young goes on to consider recent questionings of the limits of Western knowledge. He argues that the efforts of Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Homi Bhabha to formulate non-historicist ways of thinking and writing history are part of a larger project of a decolonisation of History and a deconstruction of 'the West'.
Contents
1 White mythologies 2 Marxism and the question of history 3 Sartre's extravagances 4 The scientific critique of historicism 5 Foucault's phantasms 6 The Jameson raid 7 Disorienting Orientalism 8 The ambivalence of Bhabha 9 Spivak: decolonization, deconstruction
