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Postcolonial Melancholia (The Wellek Library Lectures)
Paul Gilroy
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Description for Postcolonial Melancholia (The Wellek Library Lectures)
Paperback. An unorthodox defense of the multiculture. This book examines and defends multiculturalism within the context of the post-9/11 "politics of security." It adapts the concept of melancholia from its Freudian origins and applies it not to individual grief but to the social pathology of neoimperialist politics. Series: Wellek Library Lectures S. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL4; JHB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly. Dimension: 152 x 226 x 10. Weight in Grams: 363.
In an effort to deny the ongoing effect of colonialism and imperialism on contemporary political life, the death knell for a multicultural society has been sounded from all sides. That's the provocative argument Paul Gilroy makes in this unorthodox defense of the multiculture. Gilroy's searing analyses of race, politics, and culture have always remained attentive to the material conditions of black people and the ways in which blacks have defaced the "clean edifice of white supremacy." In Postcolonial Melancholia, he continues the conversation he began in the landmark study of race and nation 'There Ain't No Black in the Union ... Read more
In an effort to deny the ongoing effect of colonialism and imperialism on contemporary political life, the death knell for a multicultural society has been sounded from all sides. That's the provocative argument Paul Gilroy makes in this unorthodox defense of the multiculture. Gilroy's searing analyses of race, politics, and culture have always remained attentive to the material conditions of black people and the ways in which blacks have defaced the "clean edifice of white supremacy." In Postcolonial Melancholia, he continues the conversation he began in the landmark study of race and nation 'There Ain't No Black in the Union ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
Series
Wellek Library Lectures S.
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231134552
SKU
V9780231134552
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About Paul Gilroy
Paul Gilroy is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Social Theory at the London School of Economics.
Reviews for Postcolonial Melancholia (The Wellek Library Lectures)
This analysis holds an important lesson for the increasingly imperial United States: otherness is nothing to fear, especially in our age of terror.
R. Owen Williams Black Issues Book Review Paul Gilroy's Postcolonial Melancholia is a deeply engaging exploration.
Dorothy Roberts Boston Review
R. Owen Williams Black Issues Book Review Paul Gilroy's Postcolonial Melancholia is a deeply engaging exploration.
Dorothy Roberts Boston Review