Familiar Stranger
a life between two islands
$33.38
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
14 April 2018
Summary
Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Worlds
The autobiography of a man who lived through the last days of colonialism to become one of the greatest cultural thinkers of his time.
Growing up in a middle-class family in 1930s Jamaica, still then a British colony, the young Stuart Hall found himself caught between two worlds: the stiflingly respectable middle class in Kingston, and working-class Jamaica, grindingly poor, though rich in culture, music, and history. But as colon…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141984759 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141984759 |
| Author: | Stuart Hall |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 14 April 2018 |
| Weight: | 239g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 17mm |
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Much more than a memoir, Familiar Stranger is a fascinating insight into how a life shapes a brilliant mind
Much more than a memoir, Familiar Stranger is a fascinating insight into how a life shapes a brilliant mind – Andrea LevyThis is a miracle of a book – George LammingCompelling. 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 – Owen JonesVivid… a subtle and subversive memoir of the end of Empire – Colin Grant * Guardian *
About The Author
Stuart Hall
Stuart Hall was born in Kingston, Jamaica and educated at Oxford University. A pioneering cultural theorist, campaigner, and founding editor of the New 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 includes The Popular Arts (1964), the co-authored volume Policing the Crisis (1978), The Hard Road to Renewal- Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left (1988), and, with Sarat Maharaj, Modernity and Difference (2001).
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