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1、iiWHITEMYTHOLOGIESInthefirsteditionofWhiteMythologies(1990)RobertJ.C.Youngchal-lengedthefoundationalstatusofhistory,askingwhetherinthispost-moderneraweshouldconsideritaquestionableanduncertainWesternmyth.Aboveall,heasked,isitpossibletowritehistorythatavoidsthetrapofEurocentrism?Investigatingthehis
2、toryof‘History’,fromHegeltoFoucault,WhiteMythologiesinterrogatestraditionalaccountsof‘WorldHistory’thattreattheso-called‘ThirdWorld’asperipheraltothenarrativeoftheWest.YounggoesontoconsiderquestioningsofthelimitsofWesternknow-ledgeintheworkofEdwardSaid,GayatriChakravortySpivakandHomiBhabha.ForYou
3、ng,thesethinkershavebeeninvolvedinaprojecttodecolonizeHistoryandtodeconstruct‘theWest’.Theirpowerfulsubvers-ivestrategieshighlighttherelationofhistorytotheoryandofpoliticstoknowledge.WhiteMythologieshasprovedtobeoneofthemostimportantcriticalworksinpostcolonialtheoryofthepasttwodecades.Ithasengend
4、eredmuchdebateandinspiredcountlesscriticalresponses.Fourteenyearsafterpublication,RobertJ.C.YoungreturnstotheissuesraisedinthisbooktoofferfreshperspectivesandtoreflectupondevelopmentsinthedebatesonpostcolonialismsinceWhiteMythologieswasfirstpublished.RobertJ.C.YoungisProfessorofEnglishandCriticalTh
5、eoryatWadhamCollege,OxfordUniversity.HeistheauthorofColonialDesire:HybridityinTheory,CultureandRace(1995)andPostcolonialism:AnHistoricalIntro-duction(2001).Photo:AymanTaher.WHITEMYTHOLOGIESWritingHistoryandtheWestSecondeditionRobertJ.C.YoungFirstpublished1990Thissecondeditionpublished2004byRoutle
6、dge11NewFetterLane,LondonEC4P4EESimultaneouslypublishedintheUSAandCanadabyRoutledge29West35thStreet,NewYork,NY10001RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroupThiseditionpublishedintheTaylor&Francise-Library,2005.“TopurchaseyourowncopyofthisoranyofTaylor&FrancisorRoutledge’scollectionofthousandso
7、feBookspleasegotowww.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.”©1990,2004RobertJ.C.YoungAllrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedorutilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,nowknownorhereafterinvented
