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

Digital print on 200gsm uncoated paper

Annabel Sowemimo reinserts the stories of Black and Indigenous scientists and doctors into the historical narrative

and existential anxiety

Gathering together fresh perspectives from 28 leading art and museum figures—including artists

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