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The black Atlantic modernity and double consciousness

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  Crane Library, 2015

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• Author: Gilroy, Paul
  Date:

  Created

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