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The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness Paul Gilroy
Publisher: Verso

The exhibition takes its inspiration from Paul Gilroy's influential book The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness 1993. (1993) The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, Verso: London. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness. In his powerful critique of a “nationalistic focus” of English, American, and cultural studies, which he reads as essentially “antithetical to the rhizomorphic, fractal structure of the transcultural, international formation” he calls “the black Atlantic,” Gilroy provides two key reasons for a more profoundly transcultural perspective of the study of culture; he writes: The first arises from the urgent .. I give particular attention to regional formations of such transnationalism, such as the Atlantic world, arguing that it is at the level of the regional that dialectics among nations often take their most concentrated and revealing forms. Cheryl Finley: „Erinnerung verpflichtet. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. In effect, his philosophy elaborates on the intersubjective phenomenology embedded in W. Africa in Words is running a series of posts on Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, in celebration of the 20th anniversary of its release. Paul Gilroy: „The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of Modernity.“ In: The Black Atlantic, Modernity and Double Consciousness. It features over 140 works by more than 60 artists. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1993, 1-40. The Black Atlantic : Modernity and Double Consciouness est un essai sociologique publié par Paul Gilroy, sociologue et historien Afro-britannique en 1993.