A Study On Post-colonial Theory Of Robert Young

Recent years, the postcolonialism ideas has become increasingly prominent inWestern Academic Circles, especially the "Three Musketeers", led by Said, Spivakand Homi Bhabha, made a profound impact within the Studies of postcolonialismculture. Since most of the postcolonial theorists are intellectuals of Third Worldcountries origin, and postcolonial theory is essentially western theories, these resultedpostcolonial theory Study into insidious. Robert Young, as a white Britishpostcolonialism researcher, has provided this situation with a second wind.Robert Young’s postcolonial theory Study on the whole had passed through theconversion from the postcolonial theory of deconstruction to the postcolonial theoryof Marxism. The early postcolonial theory Study of Yong, basing on poststructuralism,has laid a theoretical foundation for the postcolonial discourse analysis, and revealedthe construction of the "White Myth" in Western history, the deconstruction ofessential Writing "Western" and "de-colonization" led by Said, Spivak and HomiBhabha, and the production of colonial desire and other issues like Hybridity theory.Although Marxism was snubbed by the Post-colonialism theorists because of hiseurocentric tendency, yet in his later work of Postcolonialism: an historicalintroduction, Young still found some indispensable important effect Marxism had onpostcolonial theory. And in the background of re-emergented world culture ofMarxism, Young took the transformation toward the postcolonial theory of Marxism,putting forward tentative ideas of Three continents doctrine. From the discourse ofanti-colonial revolution in the world to establish of the Comintern, and till colonialtheorists using Marxism into offset the postcolonial theory system, All these justifiedthe important role of Marxism in the field of postcolonial theory study.Furthermore, after exploring the meaning of postcolonial of Foucault andDerrida, Young adopted a new perspective on these two poststructuralist masters, andbecome able to reinterpret two masters’ life experiences and theoretical system. Onthe one hand, he broke Said’s interpretation of Foucault’s discourse theory, combiningFoucault’s experience in Tunisia, discovered Foucault of discipline, which was alsovalued by Foucault individually while ignored by postcolonial theorists. On the otherhand, through the Changing of Derrida’s identity, Yang found his theory system wasinfluenced while Derrida himself was affected by the colonial ideas, thereby being sohistoric.By reviewing the postcolonial theory, Robert Young pointed out that Marxismoccupies an important position in it, thus breaking the arbitrariness of poststructuralistthought in postcolonialism study. The breadth and depth of Yang’s investigatingpostcolonial theory, the re-examination of the spirit of Western knowledge out of thelimitations of Western, and the series of critical analysis he launched, are well worthlearning and drawing upon.