Fisher / Garcia Retrieving the Human

Reading Paul Gilroy
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4384-5277-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Philosophy and Race

An interdisciplinary consideration of Paul Gilroy's contributions to cultural theory and understandings of modernity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fisher, Rebecka Rutledge

Garcia, Jay

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Rebecka Rutledge Fisher and Jay Garcia

Part I. Theories in Motion: Roots and Routes

1. Traditions, Genealogies, and Influences: Gilroy’s Intellectual Roots and Routes
Richard H. King

2. Paul Gilroy and the Pitfalls of British Identity
Dennis Dworkin

3. “Enough of This Scandal”: Reading Gilroy through Fanon, or Who Comes after “Race”?
Anthony Alessandrini

Part II. Retrieving the Human: Two Scholars in Dialogue

4. Multiculturalism and the Negative Dialectics of Conviviality
Paul Gilroy

5. For a Dialogue with Paul Gilroy
Jonathan Boyarin

Part III. Debating the Human in Everyday Spaces

6. Sedentary and Mobile Poetics: Paul Gilroy and the Aesthetics of Postcolonial Theory
Ranu Samantrai

7. Dynamic Nominalism in Alain Locke and Paul Gilroy
Jay Garcia

8. Black Humanitarianism
Tavia Nyong’o

9. A Dialogue on the Human: An Interview with Paul Gilroy
Edited by Rebecka Rutledge Fisher and Jay Garcia

Afterword. “The Right to Address the Future”: Utopian Thinking and Paul Gilroy
John McGowan

List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rebecka Rutledge Fisher is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Habitations of the Veil: Metaphor and the Poetics of Black Being in African American Literature, also published by SUNY Press. Jay Garcia is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University and author of Psychology Comes to Harlem: Rethinking the Race Question in Twentieth-Century America.