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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1993.Description: xi, 261 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0674076052 (acidfree paper) :
  • 9780674076068 (paperback)
  • 0674076060 (paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 20 305.896/073
LOC classification:
  • CB235 .G55 1993
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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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).

ANAC copy 39088016909871 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment.

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