Postcolonial Melancholia

Informationen zum Autor Paul Gilroy is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Social Theory at the London School of Economics. Klappentext In "Postcolonial Melancholia," Paul Gilroy continues the conversation he began in his landmark study of race and nation, "'There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack," "'" by once again departing from conventional wisdom to examine-and defend-multiculturalism within the context of a post-9/11 "politics of security." Gilroy adapts the concept of melancholia from its Freudian origins and applies it to the social pathology of neoimperialist politics. His unorthodox analysis pinpoints melancholic reactions not only in the hostility and violence directed at blacks, immigrants, and aliens but also in an inability to value the ordinary, unruly multiculture that has evolved organically and unnoticed in urban centers. Drawing on seminal discussions of race by Frantz Fanon, W. E. B. DuBois, and George Orwell, Gilroy goes beyond the idea of mere tolerance and proposes that it is possible to celebrate multiculture and live with otherness without becoming anxious, fearful, or violent. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. On Living with Difference Part One: The Planet 1. Race and the Right to Be Human 2. Cosmopolitanism Contested Part Two: Albion 3. Has It Come to This? 4. The Negative Dialectics of Conviviality

Product details

• Authors: Paul Gilroy, Gilroy Paul
• Publisher: External catalogues US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2006
• EAN: 9780231134552
• ISBN: 978-0-231-13455-2
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 230 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Wellek Library Lectures (Paper; The Wellek Library Lectures; Wellek Library Lectures (Paper
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Sociology & anthropology, Political science and theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies