Postcolonial Melancholia (The Wellek Library Lectures) - Softcover

Gilroy, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 023113455X ISBN 13: 9780231134552

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Postcolonial Melancholia 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. Full description

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Review

"Gilroy sifts through the broken dreams of postcolonial anti-racism and finds shards of hope for global solidarities." -- Iris Marion Young

"This is a brilliant and moving book by one of the most intellectually formidable cultural and social theorists of our time." -- Judith Butler

"This analysis holds an important lesson for the increasingly imperial United States: otherness is nothing to fear, especially in our age of terror."

"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"

"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

"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"

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" (01/01/0001)

Paul Gilroy's "Postcolonial Melancholia" is a deeply engaging exploration.--Dorothy Roberts"Boston Review" (01/01/0001)

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" (01/01/0001)

About the Author

Paul Gilroy is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Social Theory at the London School of Economics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 023113455X
• ISBN 13: 9780231134552
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 186