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The black Atlantic : modernity and double consciousness / Paul Gilroy.

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 somenthing new and, until now, unremarked. Challenging the practices and assumptions of cultural studies, Gilroy complicates and enriches our understanding of modernism. He also exposes the shared contours of Black and Jewish conepts of diaspora to establish a theoretical basis for healing rifts between Blacks and Jews in contemporary culture."--Book cover.

Record details

ISBN: 9780674076068 (paperback)
Physical Description: xi, 261 pages ; 25 cm
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [1993]
Copyright: ©1993

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-252) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.