The black Atlantic : modernity and double consciousness /

Gilroy, Paul,

The black Atlantic : modernity and double consciousness / Paul Gilroy. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1993. - xi, 261 pages ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-252) and index.

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.

Critiqued by Alasdair Pettinger, "Enduring fortresses," Research in African literatures 29 (4) winter 1998, pages 142-147 (PL8010.R46X AFA).

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Black people--Intellectual life.
African Americans--Intellectual life
Afrocentrism

CB235 / .G55 1993

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