LTTF representation

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  • Created on: 26-11-20 13:12

Gilroy and black Atlantic

argued that the Atlantic world has been deeply shaped by slavery and the slave trade.

Between 1492 and 1820 about two-thirds of the people who crossed the Atlantic to the Americas were African, and this violently brutal migration played a key role in the development of a black consciousness in the Americas and Europe. Gilroy argues that this black consciousness is ambivalent: it does not just reject white culture, but engages with it.

Essentially it found a way of re-crossing the Atlantic creatively and, as a result, has had a central role in the formation of modernism.

There is, Paul Gilroy tells us, a culture that is not specifically African, American, Caribbean, or British, but all of these at once, a black Atlantic culture whose themes and techniques transcend ethnicity and nationality to produce something new.

The process of appropriation…

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