In <strong>Postcolonial Melancholia</strong> Paul Gilroy continues the conversation he beganin his landmark study of race and nation There Aint No Black in the ... » 

In Postcolonial Melancholia Paul Gilroy continues the conversation he beganin his landmark study of race and nation There Aint No Black in the UnionJack by once again departing from conventional wisdom to examineanddefendmulticulturalism within the context of a post911 politics ofsecurity.Gilroy adapts the concept of melancholia from its Freudian origins and appliesit to the social pathology of neoimperialist politics. His unorthodox analysispinpoints melancholic reactions not only in the hostility and violence directedat blacks immigrants and aliens but also in an inability to value theordinary unruly multiculture that has evolved organically and unnoticed inurban centers. Drawing on seminal discussions of race by Frantz Fanon W. E. B.DuBois and George Orwell Gilroy goes beyond the idea of mere tolerance andproposes that it is possible to celebrate multiculture and live with othernesswithout becoming anxious fearful or violent. «