The black Atlantic : modernity and double consciousness /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Gilroy, Paul (συγγραφέας)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1993.
• Θέματα: Μαύροι > Πνευματικές δραστηριότητες; Αφροαμερικανοί > Πνευματικές δραστηριότητες; Αφροκεντρισμός

"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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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" : W.E.B. Du Bois, Germany, and the politics of (dis)placement
• "Without the consolation of tears" : Richard Wright, France, and the ambivalence of community
• "Not a story to pass on" : living memory and the slave sublime.