Routledge Critical Thinkers:Paul Gilroy

作者：Paul Williams

出版社: Routledge; 1 (2012年12月13日)

平裝: 192頁

語種：英文

ISBN: 0415583977

條形碼: 9780415583978 

商品尺寸:  128 x 196 x 20mm

商品重量: 222.26g

ASIN: 0415583977

內容簡介

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.

作者簡介

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