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The black Atlantic : modernity and double consciousness / Paul Gilroy.
Author
Gilroy, Paul, 1956-
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English
Published/Created
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1993.
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xi, 261 pages ; 25 cm
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Firestone Library - Circulation Desk (3 Hour Reserve)
CB235 .G55 1993
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Black people
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Intellectual life
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African Americans
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Summary note
"Afrocentrism. Eurocentrism. Caribbean Studies. British Studies. To the forces of cultural nationalism hunkered down in their camps, this bold book 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. Gilroy bucks this trend by arguing that the development of black culture in the Americas and Europe is a historical experience which can be called modern for a number of clear and specific reasons. For Hegel, the dialectic of master and slave was integral to modernity, and Gilroy considers the implications of this idea for a transatlantic culture. In search of a poetics reflecting the politics and history of this culture, he takes us on a transatlantic tour of the music that, for centuries, has transmitted racial messages and feeling around the world, from the Jubilee Singers in the nineteenth century to Jimi Hendrix to rap. He also explores this internationalism as it is manifested in black writing from the "double consciousness" of W.E.B. Du Bois to the "double vision" of Richard Wright to the compelling voice of Toni Morrison." "In a final tour de force, Gilroy exposes the shared contours of black and Jewish concepts of diaspora in order both to establish a theoretical basis for healing rifts between blacks and Jews in contemporary culture and to further define the central theme of his book: that blacks have shaped a nationalism, if not a nation, within the shared culture of the black Atlantic."--Jacket
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-252) and index.
Contents
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.
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ISBN
0674076052 ((acid-free paper))
9780674076051 ((acid-free paper))
0674076060 ((pbk.))
9780674076068 ((pbk.))
0860914011
9780860914013
LCCN
93016042
OCLC
28112279
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