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Author:

Young, Robert, 1950-

Title:

White mythologies : writing history and the west / Robert J.C. Young.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

xv, 287 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

History--Philosophy.
Politics and culture.
Historiography.
Imperialism in literature.
Literature, Modern--Philosophy.
Histoire--Philosophie.
Littérature--Philosophie.
Historiographie.
Politique et culture.
Geschiedschrijving.
Eurocentrisme.
Het Westen.
Geschichtsphilosophie.
Eurozentrismus.
Kulturtheorie.
Geschichte.
Eurocentrisme.
Geschiedschrijving.
Het Westen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-266) and index.

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.

ISBN:

9780415311816 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0415311810 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780415311809 (alk. paper)
0415311802 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)53458855

LCCN:

2003024777

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)