White Mythologies
Writing, History and the West
Seiten
1990
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-05371-6 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-05371-6 (ISBN)
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The author argues that, if post-modernism marks the loss of centrality of European culture, nowhere has such a dislocation been more marked than in the status of history. He questions the limits of Western knowledge and the relevance of "history" as seen through the eyes of Western colonialism.
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 decolonization of history and a deconstruction of the West.
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 decolonization of history and a deconstruction of the West.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.12.1990 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 520 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik |
| ISBN-10 | 0-415-05371-4 / 0415053714 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-415-05371-6 / 9780415053716 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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