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WHITE MYTHOLOGIES
WRITING HISTORY AND THE WEST |
| By: |
Robert J. C. Young |
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Hardback |
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£115.00 |
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£103.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0415311802 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780415311809 |
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| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
27 May, 2004 |
| Edition: |
2nd Revised edition |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Description: |
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 reflecting on changes in the field and in the author's own position since its initial publication. |
| Synopsis: |
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'. |
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| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Routledge |
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Returnable |
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