Paul Gilroy: The Black Atlantic Juergen Teller The World Is Sad is

The World Is Sad is a fragmented story of paranoid and reparative reading

Thomas Seibert

referring to the cultures from which his work emerges – queer

and existential anxiety

Paul Gilroy: The Black Atlantic Juergen Teller The World Is Sad isVerso, 2022, Softcover, 261 pages, 23 15 cm Afrocentrism, Eurocentrism, Caribbean Studies. To the forces of cultural nationalism trapped in their respective camps, this bold book sounds like a liberating call. There is, Paul Gilroy tells us, a culture that is not specifically African, American, Caribbean, or British, but all of these at once; a black Atlantic culture whose themes and techniques transcend ethnicity and nationality to produce something