Table of Contents

Why Gilroy? Gilroy's Influences 1. Ethnic Absolutism 2. Civilizationism 3. Race is Ordinary 4. Postcolonial Melancholia in the UK 5. The Black Atlantic I: A Counterculture of Modernity 6. The Black Atlantic II: The Politics of Vernacular Culture 7. Iconization 8. The Black Atlantic III: Diaspora and the Transnational Study of Visual Culture After Gilroy

About the Author

Dr Paul Williams is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Exeter, UK.