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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-311) and index