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Author Gilroy, Paul, 1956- author.

Title Postcolonial melancholia / Paul Gilroy
Published New York : Columbia University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (351 pages)
Series The Wellek Library Lectures
Wellek Library lectures at the University of California, Irvine.
Contents Cover; Half title; Previously Published Wellek Library Lectures; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Editorial Note; Contents; Preface; Introduction: On Living with Difference; Part One: The Planet; 1: Race and the Right to Be Human; 2: Cosmopolitanism Contested; Part Two: Albion; 3: "Has It Come to This?"; 4: The Negative Dialectics of Conviviality; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index
Summary In Postcolonial Melancholia, Paul Gilroy continues the conversation he began in his landmark study of race and nation, 'There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack, ' by once again departing from conventional wisdom to examine-and defend-multiculturalism within the context of a post-9/11 ""politics of security."" Gilroy adapts the concept of melancholia from its Freudian origins and applies it to the social pathology of neoimperialist politics. His unorthodox analysis pinpoints melancholic reactions not only in the hostility and violence directed at blacks, immi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-311) and index
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Subject Cultural pluralism -- Great Britain
Minorities -- Great Britain
National characteristics, British.
Race discrimination -- Great Britain
British.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
British
Cultural pluralism
Minorities
National characteristics, British
Race discrimination
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780231509695
0231509693