© Columbia University Press
Postcolonial Melancholia
October, 2006
Paper, 192 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13455-2
$22.95
/ £13.95
Cloth, 192 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13454-5
$72.50
"This analysis holds an important lesson for the increasingly imperial United States: otherness is nothing to fear, especially in our age of terror." — R. Owen Williams, Black Issues Book Review
"Paul Gilroy's Postcolonial Melancholia is a deeply engaging exploration." — Dorothy Roberts, Boston Review
"This is a brilliant and moving book by one of the most intellectually formidable cultural and social theorists of our time. Gilroy explores modes of solidarity that are trans-local, activist, and dissident and brings neglected democratic traditions into focus. For Gilroy, racism generates what he calls an order of racial truth, and it maintains wide-ranging ontological and epistemological effects on social life. This book offers a significant change in paradigm by suggesting that the analysis of racial classification and hierarchy no longer has much to offer a world in which race is strongly resonant in issues of immigration, asylum, and government, in decolonization, and in the formation of state processes that have emerged from colonial governmentality." — Judith Butler, University of California at Berkeley
"Paul Gilroy sifts through the broken dreams of postcolonial anti-racism and finds shards of hope for global solidarities." — Iris Marion Young, University of Chicago