Since the 1960s, many people around the world have challenged the idea that western perspectives are the only ones that count. This book examines the history of that challenge, outlining the ideas behind it, and showing the ways in which the histories and the cultures of the world can be rethought in new, different and productive directions.
Since the 1960s, many people around the world have challenged the idea that western perspectives are the only ones that count. This book examines the history of that challenge, outlining the ideas behind it, and showing the ways in which the histories and the cultures of the world can be rethought in new, different and productive directions.
Robert J. C. Young is Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University. He writes in the fields of cultural and political history, literature, literary theory and philosophy, photography, psychoanalysis, and translation studies, with a particular focus on colonial history and postcolonial theory. His most recent book is an edition of uncollected and unpublished work by Frantz Fanon, Écrits sur l'aliénation et la liberté (Paris: La Découverte, 2016; English translation, Alienation and Freedom, London: Bloomsbury, 2018).
Inhaltsangabe
1: Subaltern knowledge 2: History and power, from below and above 3: Space and land 4: Hybridity 5: Postcolonial feminism 6: Globalization from a postcolonial perspective 7: Translation
1: Subaltern knowledge 2: History and power, from below and above 3: Space and land 4: Hybridity 5: Postcolonial feminism 6: Globalization from a postcolonial perspective 7: Translation
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