Black Atlantic Modernity and Double-Consciousness

Name: Black Atlantic Modernity and Double-Consciousness
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ISBN: 9780674076068

ISBN-10: 0674076060

ISBN-13: 9780674076068

Edition: 1993

Authors: Paul Gilroy

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Afrocentrism. Eurocentrism. Caribbean Studies. British Studies. To the forces of cultural nationalism hunkered down in their camps, this bold hook sounds a liberating call. There is,Paul Gilroy tells us, a culture that is not specifically African, American, Caribbean, or British, but all of these at once, a black Atlantic culture whose themes and techniques transcend ethnicity and nationality to produce something new and, until now, unremarked. Challenging the practices and assumptions of cultural studies, The Black Atlantic also complicates and enriches our understanding of modernism. Debates about postmodernism have cast an unfashionable pall over questions of historical periodization.…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/15/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Paul Gilroy holds the Anthony Giddens Professorship in Social Theory at the London School of Economics.



Preface



The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of Modernity



Masters, Mistresses, Slaves, and the Antinomies of Modernity



"Jewels Brought from Bondage"Black Music and the Politics of Authenticity



"Cheer the Weary Traveller"




"Without the Consolation of Tears"




"Not a Story to Pass On": Living Memory and the Slave Sublime


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index