Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two Islands
Autor Stuart Hallen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 apr 2018
'Compelling. Stuart Hall's story is the story of an age' Owen Jones
'Sometimes I feel I was the last colonial'
This is the story, in his own words, of the extraordinary life of Stuart Hall: writer, thinker and one of the leading intellectual lights of his age. Growing up in a middle-class family in 1930s Jamaica, then still a British colony, Hall found himself caught between two worlds: the stiflingly respectable middle class in Kingston, who, in their habits and ambitions, measured themselves against the white planter elite; and working-class and peasant Jamaica, neglected and grindingly poor, though rich in culture, music and history. But as colonial rule was challenged, things began to change in Jamaica and across the world.
When, in 1951, a scholarship took him across the Atlantic to Oxford University, Hall encountered other Caribbean writers and thinkers, from Sam Selvon and George Lamming to V. S. Naipaul. He also forged friendships with the likes of Raymond Williams and E. P. Thompson, with whom he worked in the formidable political movement, the New Left, and developed his groundbreaking ideas on cultural theory. Familiar Stranger takes us to the heart of Hall's struggle in post-war England: that of building a home and a life in a country where, rapidly, radically, the social landscape was transforming, and urgent new questions of race, class and identity were coming to light.
Told with passion and wisdom, this is a story of how the forces of history shape who we are.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141984759
ISBN-10: 0141984759
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141984759
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Stuart
Hallwas
born
in
Kingston,
Jamaica
and
educated
at
Oxford
University.
A
pioneering
cultural
theorist,
campaigner,
and
founding
editor
of
theNew
Left
Review,
Hall
was
one
of
the
most
influential
and
adventurous
thinkers
of
the
last
half
century.
He
was
Director
of
the
University
of
Birmingham's
Centre
for
Contemporary
Cultural
Studies
from
1972,
and
from
1979
was
Professor
of
Sociology
at
the
Open
University.
His
published
work
includesThe
Popular
Arts(1964),
the
co-authored
volumePolicing
the
Crisis(1978),The
Hard
Road
to
Renewal:
Thatcherism
and
the
Crisis
of
the
Left(1988),
and,
with
Sarat
Maharaj,Modernity
and
Difference(2001).
Recenzii
Much
more
than
a
memoir,Familiar
Strangeris
a
fascinating
insight
into
how
a
life
shapes
a
brilliant
mind
This is a miracle of a book
Compelling. Stuart Hall's story is the story of an age. He was a pioneer in the struggle for racial, cultural, and political liberation. He has transformed the way we think
Vivid... a subtle and subversive memoir of the end of Empire
This is a miracle of a book
Compelling. Stuart Hall's story is the story of an age. He was a pioneer in the struggle for racial, cultural, and political liberation. He has transformed the way we think
Vivid... a subtle and subversive memoir of the end of Empire