Techno-Prosthetic Romantic Futurism

Racing the Nation

Expunging "British" from "Romanticism" begs the question of collusion. [1]   There's no question that organicism plays a role in consolidating national and racial identity, or more precisely, national as racial identity. The Romantic period saw the simultaneous production of both categories. [2]   Such innovations were part of a Pan-European project of forging the master narrative of Western Culture. Obliterated in the process is the motley memory of mixed cultural heritage. [3]   Let us not be charmed unduly by the Romantic Cult of the South.

Notes

1. A trend, it seems, as for instance in Nicholas Roe, ed., Romanticism: An Oxford Guide (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005); Duncan Wu, ed., Romanticism: An Anthology, 3rd. ed. (London: Blackwell, 2006); Aidan Day Romanticism (London: Routledge, 1996).

2. See Cement Hawes The British Eighteenth Century and Global Critique (New York: Palgrave, 2005).

3. Time to revisit Martin Bernal's Black Athena: the Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1987).

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