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After Empire

Melancholia or Convivial Culture?

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on texts from the writings of Fanon and Orwell to Ali G. and The Office, After Empire, Paul Gilroy explores Britain's failure to come to terms with the loss of its empire and pre-eminent global standing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: RU48110
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780415343084
• ISBN-10: 0415343089
• Artikelnr.: 13779981

Autorenporträt

Paul Gilroy is a leading figure in international cultural studies. He is Chair of the Department of African-American Studies at Yale. Previously he was Professor of Sociology and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths. His book There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack is now a Routledge classic.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: The Planet 1. Race and the Right to be Human 2. Cosmopolitanism Contested Part 2: Albion 3. Has it Come to This? 4. The Negative Dialectics of Conviviality

Rezensionen

'This is a work of startling range, insight and originality' - Stephen Howe, The Independent

'[A] perceptive book.' - Andy Beckett, The Guardian