Tradition and the Black Atlantic
Critical Theory in the African Diaspora
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s Tradition and the Black Atlantic is both a vibrant romp down the rabbit hole of cultural studies and an examination of the discipline's roots and role in contemporary thought. In this conversational tour through the halls of theory, Gates leaps from Richard Wright to Spike Lee, from Pat Buchanan to Frantz Fanon, and ultimately to the source of anticolonialist thought: the unlikely figure of Edmund Burke. Throughout Tradition and the Black Atlantic, Gates shows that the culture wars have presented us with a surfeit of either/ors -- tradition versus modernity; Eurocentrism versus Afrocentricism. Pointing us away from th…
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- ISBN: 978-0-465-02263-2
- EAN: 9780465022632
- Produktnummer: 22911018
- Verlag: Basic Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 216 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 210 KB
- Sonstiges: Ab 13 - 99 J.
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous books, including Colored People, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man, In Search of Our Roots, and the American Book Award-winning The Signifying Monkey. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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