로버트 J.C. 영의 트리컨티넨탈리즘과 포스트식민의 급진화

Robert J.C. Young's Tricontinentalism and the Radicalization of the Postcolonial

This paper is a critical review article of Robert J.C. Young's representative two books, White Mythologies and Postcolonialism: A Historical Introduction, and tries to examine his theoretical endeavors to construct a new version of postcolonialism. It focuses on Young's theoretical development from the critique of the eurocentrism of radical theories like Marxism to the construction of postcolonialism as a theoretical and practical movement of tricontinental countries. For Young, this development means a succession of engagements with various theories including the Western Marxism and the existing postcolonial theories like Said, Bhabha, and Spivak. He harshly criticizes the white mythologies of the Western Marxism which has disregarded the radical traditions of the non-western regions and imposed its own pseudo-universality on them, while on the other hand he tries to make his own version of postcolonialism different from the existing postcolonial theories, which are oriented just to the culturalist and discursive dimension of colonial domination at the expense of its politico-economical dimension. In order to do so, he practices the radicalization of the postcolonial. He develops his own strategy to open up the field of the postcolonial in order to accept the fruitful legacies of postcolonial theories in tricontinental countries and at the same time set up the perspective of the subaltern subjects as a theoretically and practically strict measure.