Debates in regards to the ‘Black Atlantic’ have alerted us to an event of modernization that diverges from the dominant Western narratives of globalization and technological development. This extraordinary quantity expands the concept that of the Black Atlantic via achieving past the standard African-American concentration of the sphere, providing clean views on postcolonial stories of know-how and modernization. A workforce of well known members come jointly during this quantity so as to:
- redefine and extend principles of Black Atlantic
- challenge unified recommendations of modernization from a postcolonial perspective
- question trendy recommendations of the transnational by means of returning to the neighborhood and the national
- offer new techniques to cross-cultural mechanisms of exchange
- explore utopian makes use of of know-how within the postcolonial sphere.
Exploring numerous nationwide, diasporan and transnational counternarratives to Western modernization, Beyond the Black Atlantic makes a priceless contribution to the fields of postcolonial, literary and cultural studies.
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