With great insight, compassion, and wit Stuart Hall (1932-2014) tells how his experiences--from growing up in colonial Jamaica and attending Oxford to participating in the thorny politics of 1950s and 1960s Britain--shaped his intellectual and political work to become one of his age's brightest intellectual lights.
With great insight, compassion, and wit Stuart Hall (1932-2014) tells how his experiences--from growing up in colonial Jamaica and attending Oxford to participating in the thorny politics of 1950s and 1960s Britain--shaped his intellectual and political work to become one of his age's brightest intellectual lights.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Stuart Hall (1932-2014) was one of the most prominent and influential scholars and public intellectuals of his generation. He was a prolific writer and speaker and a public voice for critical intelligence and social justice who appeared widely on British television and radio. He taught at the University of Birmingham and the Open University, was the founding editor of New Left Review, and served as the director of Birmingham's Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies during its most creative and influential decade. He is the author of Selected Political Writings: The Great Moving Right Show and Other Essays and Cultural Studies 1983: A Theoretical History, both also published by Duke University Press. Bill Schwarz is Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London, author of Memories of Empire, Volume I: The White Man's World, and an editor of History Workshop Journal. Schwarz and Catherine Hall are Stuart Hall's literary executors.
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List of Illustrations xi Preface / Bill Schwarz xiii Part I. Jamaica 1. Colonial Landscapes, Colonial Subjects 3 2. The Two Jamaicas 25 3. Thinking the Caribbean: Creolizing Thinking 61 4. Race and its Disavowal 95 Part II. Leaving Jamaica 5. Conscripts of Modernity 109 Part III. Journey to an Illusion 6. Encountering Oxford: The Makings of a Diasporic Self 149 7. Caribbean Migration: The Windrush Generation 173 Part IV. Transition Zone 8. England at Home 203 9. Politics 227 Works Referenced in the Text 273 Index 285
List of Illustrations xi Preface / Bill Schwarz xiii Part I. Jamaica 1. Colonial Landscapes, Colonial Subjects 3 2. The Two Jamaicas 25 3. Thinking the Caribbean: Creolizing Thinking 61 4. Race and its Disavowal 95 Part II. Leaving Jamaica 5. Conscripts of Modernity 109 Part III. Journey to an Illusion 6. Encountering Oxford: The Makings of a Diasporic Self 149 7. Caribbean Migration: The Windrush Generation 173 Part IV. Transition Zone 8. England at Home 203 9. Politics 227 Works Referenced in the Text 273 Index 285
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