Published: 2015-01-01

Post-Ethnic America? Postcolonial Interventions into American Culture Wars and Black American Studies

Izabella Penier

Website: http://studiabrytyjskie.uni.lodz.pl/onas-pracownicy-dr-penier.php

Abstract

The article explores the impact that postcolonial studies had on the research imperatives and practices of Black American studies. I am going to argue that postcolonial, and in particular Black British cultural studies, have contributed significantly to internationalisation of Black Studies (and, by extension, of ethnic and American studies), reconfiguring the American concept of ethnicity and expanding the American discourse of multiculturalism. The article focuses particularly on the critical intervention that has come from the Caribbean-born British cultural studies theorists, first and foremost Paul Gilroy, the first critic to use the postcolonial frame of reference to black American texts.

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Penier, I. (2015). Post-Ethnic America? Postcolonial Interventions into American Culture Wars and Black American Studies. Er(r)go. Theory - Literature - Culture, (30). Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/ERRGO/article/view/2799

ER(R)GO nr 30 (1/2015) - czech literary theory (guest edited by Libor Martinek)

No. 30 (2015)
Published: 2015-01-01


ISSN: 1508-6305
eISSN: 2544-3186
Ikona DOI 10.31261/errgo

Publisher
University of Silesia Press | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego i Wydawnictwo Naukowe "Śląsk"

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