Postcolonial Melancholia
(eBook)
Description
Loading Description...
Also in this Series
Checking series information...
More Details
Format
eBook
Language
English
ISBN
9780231509695
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Paul Gilroy., & Paul Gilroy|AUTHOR. (2004). Postcolonial Melancholia . Columbia University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Paul Gilroy and Paul Gilroy|AUTHOR. 2004. Postcolonial Melancholia. Columbia University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Paul Gilroy and Paul Gilroy|AUTHOR. Postcolonial Melancholia Columbia University Press, 2004.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Paul Gilroy, and Paul Gilroy|AUTHOR. Postcolonial Melancholia Columbia University Press, 2004.
Note! Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of August 2021.
Staff View
Grouping Information
Grouped Work ID | f222978e-3e92-a49e-8af1-3b989b2efec8-eng |
---|---|
Full title | postcolonial melancholia |
Author | gilroy paul |
Grouping Category | book |
Last Update | 2023-12-01 18:07:10PM |
Last Indexed | 2024-04-20 06:17:50AM |
Book Cover Information
Image Source | hoopla |
---|---|
First Loaded | Jan 7, 2024 |
Last Used | Jan 7, 2024 |
Hoopla Extract Information
stdClass Object ( [year] => 2004 [artist] => Paul Gilroy [fiction] => [coverImageUrl] => https://cover.hoopladigital.com/csp_9780231509695_270.jpeg [titleId] => 11862208 [isbn] => 9780231509695 [abridged] => [language] => ENGLISH [profanity] => [title] => Postcolonial Melancholia [demo] => [segments] => Array ( ) [pages] => 192 [children] => [artists] => Array ( [0] => stdClass Object ( [name] => Paul Gilroy [artistFormal] => Gilroy, Paul [relationship] => AUTHOR ) ) [genres] => Array ( [0] => Ethnic Studies [1] => History & Theory [2] => Political Science [3] => Social Science [4] => Sociology ) [price] => 2.29 [id] => 11862208 [edited] => [kind] => EBOOK [active] => 1 [upc] => [synopsis] => 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 Jack' by once again departing from conventional wisdom to examine -- and defend -- multiculturalism within the context of the post-9/11 "politics of security." This book adapts the concept of melancholia from its Freudian origins and applies it not to individual grief but to the social pathology of neoimperialist politics. The melancholic reactions that have obstructed the process of working through the legacy of colonialism are implicated not only in hostility and violence directed at blacks, immigrants, and aliens but in an inability to value the ordinary, unruly multiculture that has evolved organically and unnoticed in urban centers. Drawing on the seminal discussions of race begun by Frantz Fanon, W. E. B. DuBois, and George Orwell, Gilroy crafts a nuanced argument with far-reaching implications. Ultimately, Postcolonial Melancholia goes beyond the idea of mere tolerance to propose that it is possible to celebrate the multiculture and live with otherness without becoming anxious, fearful, or violent. [url] => https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11862208 [pa] => [series] => Wellek Library Lectures [publisher] => Columbia University Press [purchaseModel] => INSTANT )