The black Atlantic : modernity and double consciousness /

"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 p...

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Main Author: Gilroy, Paul (συγγραφέας)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1993.
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Summary:"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." -- από το εξώφυλλο.
Physical Description:xi, 261 σ. ; 25 εκ.
Bibliography:Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφία και ευρετήριο.
ISBN:0674076052 (acidfree paper)
0674076060 (pbk)