Radical Narratives of the Black Atlantic (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)

In this multi-faceted and interdisciplinary take on trans-Atlantic black culture, the author 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.

General

Imprint:	Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Black Atlantic
Release date:	March 2003
First published:	April 2003
Authors:	Alan Rice
Dimensions:	155 x 231 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	288
Edition:	Illustrated Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-8264-5607-6
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	English
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies
LSN:	0-8264-5607-3
Barcode:	9780826456076

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