The Black Atlantic

Modernity and Double Consciousness

Author: Paul Gilroy
ISBN: 9780674076068

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. Gilroy bucks this trend by arguing that the development of black culture in the Americas arid 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 implicat

Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publish Date: 1993

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Cultural Heritage, History / Reference, Literary Criticism / American / African American, Social Science / Sociology / General

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: Black/African American (BLCK))