Familiar stranger: a life between two islands
by Hall, Stuart
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.
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- Full title :Familiar stranger : a life between two islands / Stuart Hall with Bill Schwarz.
Summary
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.
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- Publication Date:2017.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Duke University Press
- Place of Publication:Durham
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2017.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780822372936, 0822372932, 9780241290002, 0241290007
- DOI:10.1515/9780822372936
- oclc:ocn971021217
- LC Classification:HM479.H35
- Dewey Decimal:301.092
Table of Contents
Jamaica -- Colonial landscapes, colonial subjects -- The two Jamaicas -- Thinking the Caribbean: Creolizing thinking -- Race and its disavowal -- Leaving Jamaica -- Conscripts of modernity -- Journey to an illusion -- Encountering Oxford: the makings of a diasporic self -- Caribbean migration: the windrush generation -- Transition zone -- England at home -- Politics.
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