Map for ENGL 330 at the University of Washington, Spring 2025
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- Black Atlantic: Paul Gilroy’s naming of an interlinked cultural zone that geographically accords with the Atlantic basin in the C18-19. It allows us to conceptualize the ways that a) national or regional restrictions artificially constrain the links within this zone; b) the ways Europe (especially) but also North America and Africa are not the locus of intellectual and cultural development (contra Enlightenment narratives); and c) the interdependence of Black and white people in this zone. “Gilroy suggests that blacks and whites throughout the Atlantic are unthinkable without each other. Black thought often resists or speaks in counterpoint to white, whereas white involvement in slave systems, racially defined societies, and charged racial debates make white dependent on the black” (source).
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The Overthrow of the Jacobin Faction marked the beginning of the third phase of the revolution and emphasized the need to overhaul French society and politics.