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The black Atlantic : modernity and double consciousness

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  • Author: Gilroy, Paul
    Date:
    Created
    1993
    Summary:

    An account of the location of black intellectuals in the modern world following the end of racial slavery. The lives and writings of key African Americans such as Martin Delany, W.E.B. Dubois, Frederick Douglas and Richard Wright are examined in the light of their experiences in Europe and Africa.

    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.
    Genre:
    Essays
    Sujets: Afrocentrism | Author, Black | African Americans--Intellectual life | Black people--Intellectual life
    Original Publisher: Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press
    Language(s): English
    Collection(s)/Series: Black Authors