Postcolonial melancholia / Paul Gilroy.
Postcolonial melancholia / Paul Gilroy.
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Publisher
New York : Columbia University Press, 2004.
Date
2004.
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English
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Physical content
xvi, 170 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction : on living with difference -- 1. Race and the right to be human -- 2. Cosmopolitanism contested -- 3. "Has it come to this?" -- 4. The negative dialectics of conviviality.
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Publisher
New York : Columbia University Press, 2004.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2004.
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Summary
"In an effort to deny the ongoing effect of colonialism and imperialism on contemporary political life, the death knell for a multicultural society has been sounded from all sides. That's the argument Paul Gilroy makes in this unorthodox defense of the multiculture. Gilroy's searing analyses of race, politics, and culture have always remained atten...
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Postcolonial melancholia / Paul Gilroy.
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Wellek library lectures.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Other version (online)
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74VKmZqAPxdg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKmZqAPxdg
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ISBN
0231134541 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231134545 (cloth : alk. paper)
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305.800941
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991020457419702626
