Description
Stuart Hall, in whose honour this volume is compiled, has made significant contributions to contemporary social and political discourse. Constantly praised for his scholarly prescience, he was at the helm of the forging and definition of the discipline of Cultural Studies and nurtured an entire cadre of young intellectuals who continue to make remarkable contributions in the fields of Cultural Studies and Social Criticism.
The essays that constitute this collection, all, in different ways, contend with Hall’s methodology, his philosophy, as well as many other dimensions of his rich and textured intellectual career. More importantly however, they serve to reconnect his work to the social context of his island of birth, Jamaica, and the wider Caribbean.
About the Editor
Brian Meeks is Professor of Social and Political Change at the University of the West Indies, Mona, and Director of the Centre for Caribbean Thought.
Contents
Introduction: Return of a Native Son – Brian Meeks
Prologue: The Caribbean and Cultural Studies: More than Grimace and Colour – Rex Nettleford
PART I: Metropolitan Engagements
- ‘Working from the Symptom’: Stuart Hall’s Political Writing – Michael Rustin
- Disorderly Politics: Reading with the Grain – Bill Schwarz
- The Revolution Stripped Bare – Gilane Tawadros
- Feminism, ‘Race’ and Stuart Hall’s Diasporic Imagination – Avtar Brah
PART II: Theory and Critique
- ‘The First Shall be Last’: Locating The Popular Arts in the Stuart Hall Ouevre – Grant Farred
- Stuart Hall on Race and Racism: Cultural Studies and the Practice of Contextualism – Lawrence Grossberg
- Stuart Hall’s Changing Representations of ‘Race’ – Charles W. Mills
PART III: Caribbean Contingencies
-
- Unspeakable Worlds and Muffled Voices: Thomas Thistlewood as Agent and Medium of Eighteenth-Century Jamaican Society – Cecilia Green
- Civic Politics in Jamaica: New Populism or Political Breakthrough? – Obika Gray
- The Politics of Power and Violence: Rethinking the Political in the Caribbean – Anthony Bogues
- Canvasses of Representation: Stuart Hall, the Body and Dancehall Performance – Sonjah Stanley Niaah and Donna P. Hope
- Diaspora, Globalization and the Politics of Identity – Percy C. Hintzen
Epilogue: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life – Stuart Hall
