*Broad-based survey of trans-Atlantic black culture*Newest book in
the popular Black Atlantic seriesRadical Narratives of the Black
Atlantic is a multi-faceted and interdisciplinary take on
trans-Atlantic black culture. Alan Rice engages fully with Paul
Gilroy's paradigm of the Black Atlantic through examination of a
broad array of cultural genres including music, dance, folklore and
oral literature, fine art, material culture, film and literature.
The aspects of black culture under discussion range from black
British gravesites to sea shanties, from the novels of Toni
Morrison to the paintings of the Zanzibar born black British artist
Lubaina Himid and from King Kong to the travels of Frederick
Douglass and Paul Robeson. The book places such figures as the
African American traveller and Barbary slave narrator Robert Adams
and the West Indian slave narrator Mary Prince in a Black Atlantic
context that explicates them fully. A chapter on the Titanic
disaster shows how diasporan Africans composed oral poems about the
disaster to criticise the discriminatory practices of its owners
and racial imperialism. Overall, the book argues for the crucial
importance of Black Atlantic cultures in the formation of our
modern world. Moreover, it argues that looking at Black culture and
history through a national lens is distorting and reductive.
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