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.The black Atlantic politicsof location frames the doorway of double consciousness.MartinDelany is an exemplary figure.A distinguished polymath, he publishedThe Condition, Elevation, Emigration and Destiny of the Colored People of the Uses Cultural Studies 10/3/05 11:52 am Page 53Gilroy s Critique of Racialised Modernity 53United States Politically Considered in 1852, he attempted to combineChristianity with a pan African flourish and, an extensive traveller, healso spent seven months in England.Delany s work is informed by thedispersal of black people and this gives him cause to consider the ideaof the black nation state.Later, enlisted in the Union side, Delanyendorsed an American patriotism and this, argues Gilroy, complementshis earlier enthusiasm for a black state.But the more intractable ques-tion confronting Delany and others was how to envisage a means bywhich black people, despite their plurality and dispersal, could bebrought together in struggles to overcome their subjugation? To imag-ine this entails understanding the workings of modernity, capitalismand the processes of democratisation.The difficulty is that the legacy ofmodernity is a concept of man with a stable identity and with a rootedlocation.This suggests an ethnic culture inside a nation state.How toacquire full citizenship without advocating the nation state?Among the writers Gilroy is discussing runs a strong thread of beliefin the nation state as the means to overcome oppression.Thus moder-nity bequeaths to its racialised others the idea of nation.Many blackwriters do not consider these histories of music, so important to Gilroy,for the reason that they interrupt this narrative, they both transcendnation and ethnocentrism and they demonstrate inter-racial disputeand differenciation.Black music is a counter culture of modernity.There is found in this music a morality encoded within a popular ver-nacular which is also able to look to a utopian future untroubled byracial oppression.Gilroy says music-making and performance is aboutfinding strength to go on living.The slave sublime is constitutive of apolitics of transfiguration.Thus the vernacular arts of the children of slaves give rise to a verdicton the role of art.in harmony with Adorno s reflections.Art sutopia.is a freedom which did not pass under the spell of necessityand which may not well come to pass ever at all.(Gilroy, 1993: 38)Art in the broadest sense is one critical means with which freedom canbe envisaged.Hence Gilroy s focus on writing fiction, autobiogra-phy as well as music.A fuller account of modernity requires a return to Hegel s under-standing of the bond between master and slave as relational.Thisrelation requires a slave s perspective which, though absent from Uses Cultural Studies 10/3/05 11:52 am Page 5454 The Uses of Cultural Studiessubsequent accounts of modernity, does exist.In The Black Atlantic theseaccounts are central to his attempt to reformulate modernity on thebasis that racial terror is not merely compatible with occidental ration-ality but cheerfully complicit with it (ibid.: 56).One critical turningpoint in this experience, argues Gilroy, is when confronted with absolutebrutality the slave defends himself physically against his master.Frederick Douglass s preference for death rather than submissionbecomes a structure of feeling where death is a release from terror.Gilroy then shows how death as escape becomes a symbol of identitywhich appears and reappears through subsequent slave narratives andalso in a wide range of black writing, from autobiography to fiction.This brings into being a conception of the slave subject as an agent anda black spirituality which legitimises these moments of violence.which also projects beyond the limits of the present.Gilroy then locateshis own endeavours within the framework established by DuBois andothers.This is to offer a distinctive interpretation of modernity.In TheBlack Atlantic there is also a desire to complement the unfulfilled aspira-tions of the project of modernity as described by Marx with aredemptive critique of the present in the light of the vital memories ofthe slave past (ibid.: 71).Why does music possess such important status in Gilroy s work?Because it is able to carry within it the slaves will [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.The black Atlantic politicsof location frames the doorway of double consciousness.MartinDelany is an exemplary figure.A distinguished polymath, he publishedThe Condition, Elevation, Emigration and Destiny of the Colored People of the Uses Cultural Studies 10/3/05 11:52 am Page 53Gilroy s Critique of Racialised Modernity 53United States Politically Considered in 1852, he attempted to combineChristianity with a pan African flourish and, an extensive traveller, healso spent seven months in England.Delany s work is informed by thedispersal of black people and this gives him cause to consider the ideaof the black nation state.Later, enlisted in the Union side, Delanyendorsed an American patriotism and this, argues Gilroy, complementshis earlier enthusiasm for a black state.But the more intractable ques-tion confronting Delany and others was how to envisage a means bywhich black people, despite their plurality and dispersal, could bebrought together in struggles to overcome their subjugation? To imag-ine this entails understanding the workings of modernity, capitalismand the processes of democratisation.The difficulty is that the legacy ofmodernity is a concept of man with a stable identity and with a rootedlocation.This suggests an ethnic culture inside a nation state.How toacquire full citizenship without advocating the nation state?Among the writers Gilroy is discussing runs a strong thread of beliefin the nation state as the means to overcome oppression.Thus moder-nity bequeaths to its racialised others the idea of nation.Many blackwriters do not consider these histories of music, so important to Gilroy,for the reason that they interrupt this narrative, they both transcendnation and ethnocentrism and they demonstrate inter-racial disputeand differenciation.Black music is a counter culture of modernity.There is found in this music a morality encoded within a popular ver-nacular which is also able to look to a utopian future untroubled byracial oppression.Gilroy says music-making and performance is aboutfinding strength to go on living.The slave sublime is constitutive of apolitics of transfiguration.Thus the vernacular arts of the children of slaves give rise to a verdicton the role of art.in harmony with Adorno s reflections.Art sutopia.is a freedom which did not pass under the spell of necessityand which may not well come to pass ever at all.(Gilroy, 1993: 38)Art in the broadest sense is one critical means with which freedom canbe envisaged.Hence Gilroy s focus on writing fiction, autobiogra-phy as well as music.A fuller account of modernity requires a return to Hegel s under-standing of the bond between master and slave as relational.Thisrelation requires a slave s perspective which, though absent from Uses Cultural Studies 10/3/05 11:52 am Page 5454 The Uses of Cultural Studiessubsequent accounts of modernity, does exist.In The Black Atlantic theseaccounts are central to his attempt to reformulate modernity on thebasis that racial terror is not merely compatible with occidental ration-ality but cheerfully complicit with it (ibid.: 56).One critical turningpoint in this experience, argues Gilroy, is when confronted with absolutebrutality the slave defends himself physically against his master.Frederick Douglass s preference for death rather than submissionbecomes a structure of feeling where death is a release from terror.Gilroy then shows how death as escape becomes a symbol of identitywhich appears and reappears through subsequent slave narratives andalso in a wide range of black writing, from autobiography to fiction.This brings into being a conception of the slave subject as an agent anda black spirituality which legitimises these moments of violence.which also projects beyond the limits of the present.Gilroy then locateshis own endeavours within the framework established by DuBois andothers.This is to offer a distinctive interpretation of modernity.In TheBlack Atlantic there is also a desire to complement the unfulfilled aspira-tions of the project of modernity as described by Marx with aredemptive critique of the present in the light of the vital memories ofthe slave past (ibid.: 71).Why does music possess such important status in Gilroy s work?Because it is able to carry within it the slaves will [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]