White Mythologies:
Writing History & the West

Robert J.C. Young

Second edition 2004

Contents

            Foreword by Homi K. Bhabha 
            Preface to the First Edition     
            Note to the Second Edition      

Introduction to Second Edition
           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 phantasms                                                                              
6          The Jameson raid                                                                                    
7          Disorienting Orientalism                                                                           
8          The ambivalence of Bhabha                                                                     
9          Spivak: decolonization, deconstruction                                                     

            Notes                                                                                                      
            Bibliography                                                                                            
            Index