Tradition and the Black Atlantic
Subtitle: critical theory in the African diaspora
By: Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Publisher: BasicCivitas
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780465014101
Description: "Henry Louis Gates, Jr. s Tradition and the Black Atlantic is both a vibrant romp down the rabbit hole of cultural studies and an examination of the disciplines roots and role in contemporary thought. In this conversational tour through the halls of theory, Gates leaps from Richard Wright to Spike Lee, from Pat Buchanan to Frantz Fanon, and ultimately to the source of anticolonialist thought: the unlikely figure of Edmund Burke. Throughout Tradition and the Black Atlantic, Gates shows that the culture wars have presented us with a surfeit of either/orstradition versus modernity; Eurocentrism versus Afrocentricism. Pointing us away from these facile dichotomies, Gates deftly combines rigorous scholarship with humor, looking back to the roots of cultural studies in order to map out its future course."--Www.amazon.co.uk (Nov. 25, 2010).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Enlightenment's Esau; title: Fade to Black : from cultural studies to cultural politics; title: Critical Fanonism; title: Beyond the culture wars : identities in dialogue.