Retrieving the Human

Rebecka Rutledge Fisher is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Habitations of the Veil: Metaphor and the Poetics of Black Being in African American Literature, also published by SUNY Press. Jay Garcia is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University and author of Psychology Comes to Harlem: Rethinking the Race Question in Twentieth-Century America.

• IntroductionRebecka Rutledge Fisher and Jay GarciaPart I. Theories in Motion: Roots and Routes 1. Traditions, Genealogies, and Influences: Gilroy’s Intellectual Roots and RoutesRichard H. King2. Paul Gilroy and the Pitfalls of British IdentityDennis Dworkin3. "Enough of This Scandal": Reading Gilroy through Fanon, or Who Comes after "Race"?Anthony AlessandriniPart II. Retrieving the Human: Two Scholars in Dialogue 4. Multiculturalism and the Negative Dialectics of ConvivialityPaul Gilroy5. For a Dialogue with Paul GilroyJonathan BoyarinPart III. Debating the Human in Everyday Spaces 6. Sedentary and Mobile Poetics: Paul Gilroy and the Aesthetics of Postcolonial TheoryRanu Samantrai7. Dynamic Nominalism in Alain Locke and Paul GilroyJay Garcia8. Black HumanitarianismTavia Nyong’o9. A Dialogue on the Human: An Interview with Paul GilroyEdited by Rebecka Rutledge Fisher and Jay GarciaAfterword. "The Right to Address the Future": Utopian Thinking and Paul GilroyJohn McGowanList of ContributorsIndex

"…a diverse approach that allows for a well-rounded examination of Gilroy's rich, complex oeuvre." — CHOICE