Paul Gilroy by Paul Williams

Author:Paul Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-03-02T16:00:00+00:00

SUMMARY

Slavery and its aftermath meant that the African diaspora occupied a unique position in the making of the modern world: the slaves incarcerated on New World plantations were at the centre of the international capitalist economy, but they were legally and violently excluded from modernity’s official public spheres. This gave black Atlantic peoples a distinctive perspective on modernity, one that was highly attuned to evaluating whether it lived up to its promises. In this way the black Atlantic represents a counterculture of modernity.

Forced to adopt a questioning outlook on Enlightenment rationality and developing hybrid cultural forms to articulate those questions and make sense of their situation, if we look at the cultural practitioners of the black Atlantic we see the inversion of the prevalent historical narrative where artistic modernism is succeeded by philosophical postmodernism.

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