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The Black Atlantic as Heuristic: Rethinking Modernity through Diaspora and Transnationalism
ZHOU Meng-jie
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2025.09.005
University of Chinese Academy of Social Science, Beijing, China
Since the publication of The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993), the concept of the “Black Atlantic” has become a key paradigm in diaspora studies and cultural criticism. The “Black Atlantic” challenges the historical dominance of Western-centered Atlantic history by situating slavery, forced migration, and diasporic intellectual production as central components of modernity itself. This essay re-examines the meaning of the “Black Atlantic” by situating it against Eurocentric Atlantic history, exploring its philosophical dialogue with modernity, interrogating its relationship with Marxism, and reassessing its significance in the context of globalization. In doing so, it seeks to clarify both the transformative power and the limitations of Gilroy’s paradigm while also suggesting directions for future scholarship that reconnect the “Black Atlantic” to Africa, Marxism, and anti-capitalist critique.
“the Black Atlantic”, Marxism, anti-capitalism
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, September 2025, Vol. 15, No. 9, 707-712
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