Paul Gilroy (Routledge Critical Thinkers) - Softcover

Williams, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415583977 ISBN 13: 9780415583978

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

Paul Gilroy has been a controversial force at the forefront of debates around race, nation, and diaspora. Working across a broad range of disciplines, Gilroy has argued that racial identities are historically constructed, formed by colonization, slavery, nationalist philosophies, and consumer capitalism.

Paul Williams introduces Gilroy’s key themes and ideas, including:

• the essential concepts, including ethnic absolutism, civilizationism, postcolonial melancholia, iconization, and the ‘black Atlantic’
• analysis of Gilroy’s broad-ranging cultural references, from Edmund Burke to hip-hop
• a comprehensive overview of Gilroy’s influences and the academic debates his work has inspired.

Emphasizing the timeliness and global relevance of Gilroy’s ideas, this guide will appeal to anyone approaching Gilroy’s work for the first time or seeking to further their understanding of race and contemporary culture.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr Paul Williams is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Exeter, UK.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0415583977
• ISBN 13: 9780415583978
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192