vibrant romp down the rabbit hole of cultural studies and an
examination of the discipline's 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/ors —
tradition 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.
About the Author
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute
for African and African American Research and the Alphonse Fletcher
University Professor at Harvard University. The author of numerous
books, including the American Book Award winning The Signifying
Monkey, he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Tradition and the Black Atlantic
Critical Theory in the African Diaspora
1st Edition
Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Author)
August 2010
Hardcover · 224 Pages
$23.95 U.S. · $30.50 CAN
ISBN 9780465014101
Basic Civitas Books
http://www.consortiumacademic.net/book.php?isbn=9780465014101
W. J. T. Mitchell, Professor of English and Art History at the
University of Chicago, and editor of Critical Theory
"[Stone] has a terrific eye for detail, bringing to life everything
from the ruins of Germany to Ronald Reagan's White House with a
wonderfully waspish turn of phrase…. He captures well the West's
weakness, as well as the seemingly powerful challenge that eastern-
style socialism posed to Western freedom."
Cornel West, Princeton University
"Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is a towering man of letters in American life.
He also is a seminal literary theorist whose work in African-American
Studies has been profound and pioneering. In this book, he engages the
Enlightenment, Frantz Fanon and the quests for identity in a vintage
Gates manner: brilliant, witty and free thinking!"
Paul Gilroy, Anthony Giddens Professor of Social Theory, London School
of Economics and Political Science
"The colossus of critical theory has been sedated for a decade by
securitocracy. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. wants to re-awaken it. His
lucidity, acuity and intellectually generosity conjure up fundamental
issues that will help to settle the fate of Africa's diasporas.
Cultural Studies acquires a worldly history and we encounter
interpretations of twentieth-century, black politics and letters that
remain as startling as they are novel. Gates' luminous provocations
and insights have won a new urgency as the politics of culture assumes
neocolonial as well as postcolonial patterns."
Arnold Rampersad, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University
"Bringing impeccable credentials to the persistently vital debate
about cultural studies, Professor Gates has written a brilliant book
that is as subtle and erudite as it is accessible to a wide range of
readers. He consistently displays a sure grasp of the theoretical
complexities of this controversial subject. At the same time, his
arguments are leavened by the generosity of spirit and abundant good
humor that have graced his immense body of work over the years."
Kobena Mercer, author of Welcome to the Jungle
"Mapping the contested concept of culture in diasporic, post-colonial
and multicultural spaces, Henry Louis Gates Jr. conveys far-reaching
insights in a piquant style that never fails to stimulate and provoke.
What results is a critical cosmopolitanism that puts him at the heart
of humanist inquiry in an era of global change."
Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of
Philosophy & the University Center for Human Values, Princeton
University
"Only Henry Louis Gates, Jr. could set sail from Edmund Burke's
critique of imperialism in the 1790s, navigate through the turbulent
culture wars of the 1990s, and find safe harbor in the new millennium
with a re-imagined conception of race and identity."
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