Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands by Stuart Hall (English) Paperback

Description: Familiar Stranger by Stuart Hall, Bill Schwarz 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 ages brightest intellectual lights. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "Sometimes I feel myself to have been the last colonial." This, in his own words, is the extraordinary story of the life and career of Stuart Hall—how his experiences shaped his intellectual, political, and theoretical work and how he became one of his ages brightest intellectual lights. Growing up in a middle-class family in 1930s Kingston, Jamaica, still then a British colony, the young Stuart Hall found himself uncomfortable in his own home. He lived among Kingstons stiflingly respectable brown middle class, who, in their habits and ambitions, measured themselves against the white elite. As colonial rule was challenged, things began to change in Kingston and across the world. In 1951 a Rhodes scholarship took Hall across the Atlantic to Oxford University, where he met young Jamaicans from all walks of life, as well as writers and thinkers from across the Caribbean, including V. S. Naipaul and George Lamming. While at Oxford he met Raymond Williams, Charles Taylor, and other leading intellectuals, with whom he helped found the intellectual and political movement known as the New Left. With the emotional aftershock of colonialism still pulsing through him, Hall faced a new struggle: that of building a home, a life, and an identity in a postwar England so rife with racism that it could barely recognize his humanity. With great insight, compassion, and wit, Hall tells the story of his early life, taking readers on a journey through the sights, smells, and streets of 1930s Kingston while reflecting on the thorny politics of 1950s and 1960s Britain. Full of passion and wisdom, Familiar Stranger is the intellectual memoir of one of our greatest minds. Author Biography 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 Birminghams 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 Mans World, and an editor of History Workshop Journal. Schwarz and Catherine Hall are Stuart Halls literary executors. Table of Contents 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 Review "Hall, characteristically, refused such easy identifications, as either deracinated man of the New Left or postcolonial black theorist. Nowhere is this clearer than in Halls own ego-histoire, Familiar Stranger. . . [which], like the two volumes in the series already published by Duke, reminds us that for Hall thinking historically was essential to understanding ourselves and the conditions in which we live." -- James Vernon * Public Books *"Familiar Stranger is a homecoming of sorts, a hybrid of memoir and meditation, a spirited voyage around the complexities of race, colour and class. . . . Familiar Stranger reads as a subtle and subversive memoir of the end of empire." -- Colin Grant * The Guardian *"[T]he most significant figure on the British intellectual left over the course of the last 50 years. . . . Reading this book is to be reminded of the quiet rigour of his conversation...." -- Tim Adams * The Guardian *"In Halls case, as a mixed-race or coloured Jamaican, his journey to the imperial core involved a very particular kind of disenchantment. This posthumously published memoir tells that story with a thoughtful fair-mindedness that illuminates not only his own struggles with identity and a sense of place in the world, but also those of postwar Britain and its seemingly endless efforts to come to terms with class, race and empire." -- Maria Misra * Financial Times *"[A] rich resource of Halls swift, lucid and beautifully turned theories of black identity...." -- Fred Inglis * Times Higher Education *"Hall is a key thinker. His analysis remains profound. In these days of Brexit we need his nuanced view of identity more than ever. When his voice comes through in this book it is rich with longing and the constant stretching of asking how we think about who we are and where we come from. Hall in full flow was quite something. He remains one of the best speakers I have heard." -- Suzanne Moore * New Statesman *"There has never been a better time, in the context of the re-emergence of racialized modes of thinking, racism and discrimination across vast swathes of the Western world, to read and re-read Hall." -- Sindre Bangstad * Africa is a Country *"This is a compelling portrait of Halls own struggle to forge his own identity and sense of belonging as well as a grim history of slavery, colonialism and racism in modern Jamaica and Britain. Halls humanity and honesty pour from every page as he connects the ideas that formed his thinking to his own life." -- Angela Cobbinah * Camden New Journal *"Readers of Familiar Stranger expecting a purely personal traditional memoir will instead find themselves reading a much more rewarding intellectual autobiography, through which Hall s life is threaded.... Familiar Stranger succeeds in casting his life as a conduit to a larger discussion about race, history, and politics." -- Gretchen Gerzina * TLS *"Halls work has become especially resonant as Britain has voted for a narrower identity and a more isolationist attitude to the rest of the world.... There is a generosity and literary imagination in his writing—a recognition that humans are complex, contradictory creatures shaped by, among other things, what they believe, where they live, how they shop, and who they sleep with." -- Jessica Loudis * The New Republic *"This is an extremely rich and fascinating memoir.... The centrality of race, of colonialism, and Familiar Strangers account of the forces which go make a diasporic intellectual will, I think, fill out a lot of the gaps in readers conceptions of Stuart Hall." -- Graeme Turner * Europe Now *"Hall presents a portrait of a divided self, of what it meant to be not merely an object but a damaged subject of racial thinking." -- Gaiutra Bahadur * Dissent *"Familiar Stranger adds substantially to our knowledge of the way Halls origins informed his work. . . . What emerges from the memoir is how much Halls preoccupations came from his experience, and were forged in the heat of constant argument with that experience." -- Nikil Saval * New Left Review *"Familiar Stranger provides a rewarding feast of history, sociology, theory, politics and—oh yes, biography." -- Lawrence Grossberg * American Book Review *"Schwarzs voice is silently present, his deft editorial hand evident. . . . A work of richness and depth that stands as worthy testament to [Halls] life and ideas." -- James Epstein * American Historical Review *"An utterly engrossing and profoundly moving book. . . . A remarkable book, rich with the insights and eloquence that we have come to expect from Stuart Hall." -- Winston James * New West Indian Guide *"It was one of Halls unique gifts to offer analysis of the moment as it unfolded before our eyes. I am sure I am not alone in having found his talks exhilarating in ways I could never quite understand, given that the news he relayed with such energy was almost unremittingly dire. Hall offered his readings as interpretation and self-commentary, tracing his own intellectual path." -- Jacqueline Rose * New York Review of Book * Review Quote "This is an extremely rich and fascinating memoir.... The centrality of race, of colonialism, and Familiar Stranger s account of the forces which go make a diasporic intellectual will, I think, fill out a lot of the gaps in readers conceptions of Stuart Hall." Details ISBN0822371405 Author Bill Schwarz Year 2018 ISBN-10 0822371405 ISBN-13 9780822371403 Format Paperback Publication Date 2018-04-12 Short Title Familiar Stranger Pages 320 Language English Subtitle A Life Between Two Islands Imprint Duke University Press Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Illustrations 12 illustrations AU Release Date 2018-04-12 NZ Release Date 2018-04-12 US Release Date 2018-04-12 UK Release Date 2018-04-12 Publisher Duke University Press Series Stuart Hall: Selected Writings Alternative 9780822363637 Edited by Bill Schwarz DEWEY B Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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