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"Dwelling Places" explores some of the key venues of black British
literary and cultural production across the postwar period: bedsits
and basements; streets and cafes; train stations and tourist
landscapes; the suburbs and the city; the north and south.
Extending from central London to the outskirts of Glasgow, the book
pursues a "devolving" landscape in order to consider what an
analysis of "dwelling" might contribute to the travelling theories
of diaspora discourse. What happens, for example, when we "situate"
literatures of movement and migration? There are fresh readings of
work by some of the key literary figures of the postwar years,
including Sam Selvon, George Lamming, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Farrukh
Dhondy, Hanif Kureishi, Salman Rushdie, Meera Syal and Jackie Kay.
These writings are explored alongside a range of non-literary
material, including photography, painting and film, in order to
consider their relation to broader shifts in the politics of black
representation over the past fifty years. This book will appeal to
students of British and postcolonial literature.
Without readers and audiences, viewers and consumers, the
postcolonial would be literally unthinkable. And yet, postcolonial
critics have historically neglected the modes of reception and
consumption that make up the politics, and pleasures of
meaning-making during and after empire. Thus, while recent
criticism and theory has made large claims for reading; as an
ethical act; as a means of establishing collective, quasi-political
consciousness; as identification with difference; as a mode of
resistance; and as an impulsion to the public imagination, the
reader in postcolonial literary studies persists as a shadowy
figure. This collection answers the now pressing need for a
distinctively postcolonial take on the rapidly expanding area of
reader and reception studies. Written by some of the top scholars
in the field, these essays reveal readers and reception to be
varied and profoundly unstable subjects that challenge many of our
assumptions and preconceptions of the postcolonial from the notion
of reading as national fellowship to the demands of an ethics of
reading.
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Stuart Hall (Hardcover)
James Procter; Series edited by Robert Eaglestone
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R2,980
Discovery Miles 29 800
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James Procter's introduction places Hall's work within its
historical contexts, providing a clear guide to his key ideas and
influences, as well as to his critics and his intellectual legacy.
Stuart Hall has been pivotal to the development of cultural studies
during the past forty years. Whether as director of the Centre for
Contemporary Cultural Studies, or as one of the leading public
intellectuals of the postwar period, he has helped transform our
understanding of culture as both a theoretical catagory and a
political practice. Topics include: * popular culture and youth
subcultures * the CCCS and cultural studies * media and
communication * racism and resistance * postmodernism and the
postcolonial * Thatcherism * identity, ethnicity, diaspora Stuart
Hall is the ideal gateway to the work of a critic described by
Terry Eagleton as 'a walking chronicle of everything from the New
Left to New Times, Leavis to Lyotard, Aldermaston to ethnicity'
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Stuart Hall (Paperback)
James Procter; Series edited by Robert Eaglestone
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R686
Discovery Miles 6 860
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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James Procter's introduction places Hall's work within its
historical contexts, providing a clear guide to his key ideas and
influences, as well as to his critics and his intellectual legacy.
Stuart Hall has been pivotal to the development of cultural studies
during the past forty years. Whether as director of the Centre for
Contemporary Cultural Studies, or as one of the leading public
intellectuals of the postwar period, he has helped transform our
understanding of culture as both a theoretical catagory and a
political practice. Topics include: * popular culture and youth
subcultures * the CCCS and cultural studies * media and
communication * racism and resistance * postmodernism and the
postcolonial * Thatcherism * identity, ethnicity, diaspora Stuart
Hall is the ideal gateway to the work of a critic described by
Terry Eagleton as 'a walking chronicle of everything from the New
Left to New Times, Leavis to Lyotard, Aldermaston to ethnicity'
The first anthology of its kind, this timely collection brings
together a diverse range of black British literatures, essays and
documents from across the post-war period within a single volume..
Spanning half a century, this rich archive of representations
includes South Asian, African and Caribbean cultural production by
both leading and lesser-known artists, critics and commentators:.
Sam Selvon Salman Rushdie George Lamming Hanif Kureishi Stuart Hall
Linton Kwesi Johnson Caryl Phillips Paul Gilroy Meera Syal Kobena
Mercer James Berry E. R. Braithwaite Wilson Harris Farrukh Dhondy
V. S. Naipaul Ben Okri Wole Soyinka Hazel Carby Kamau Braithwaite
Isaac Julien C. L. R. James Dick Hebdige A. Sivanandan Buchi
Emecheta Louise Bennett Grace Nichols Jackie Kay. Directed at a
truly interdisciplinary market, accommodating popular and 'high'
cultural materials from across the disciplines of literature, film,
photography, history, sociology, politics, Marxism, feminism,
cultural and communications studies.. Situated and contextualised
within accessible historical and cultural frameworks and
incorporating lucid introductions, a detailed chronology and
extensive bibliography. -- .
From Aberdeen to the Isle of Wight, Out of Bounds is a newly
charted map of Britain as viewed by its black and Asian poets. It
takes the reader on a riveting, sensory journey through Scotland,
England and Wales, showing the whole country from a fresh
perspective. This extensive and ground-breaking anthology - with
its sudden forks in the road, and its roads not taken - stops off
in the Highlands and Islands, skirts the North East coast from
Whitley Bay to the sands of Bridlington, wanders lonely through the
Lake District and Yorkshire, climbs the mountains of Wales before
descending to the Black Country and Southern England. Along the way
it takes in lochs and landmarks from Glasgow's George Square and
the Angel of the North to the London Eye and the Long Man of
Wilmington. If alienation, unbelonging and dislocation remain key
aspects of black and Asian experiences in Britain, what such terms
simultaneously conceal are the rich and manifold attachments to
place, region, city and landscape offered in Out of Bounds. The
poems question the idea of an easy or singular identity, nimbly
dealing with the triple bind of ethnic, geographical and poetic
belonging. An alternative A to Z of the nation, a new poetic guide,
the book enables us to look again at the UK's local and regional
landscapes and the poets who pass through them. Out of Bounds is a
definitive anthology that brings together new and established black
and Asian writers and places them firmly on the map of what is
great and not so great about Britain. Includes: Shanta Acharya,
John Agard, Patience Agbabi, Moniza Alvi, James Berry, Jean 'Binta'
Breeze, Vahni Capildeo, Merle Collins, Fred D'Aguiar, David
Dabydeen, Imtiaz Dharker, Bernardine Evaristo, Khadijah Ibrahiim,
Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jackie Kay, Tariq Latif, Sheree Mack, Jack
Mapanje, E.A. Markham, Daljit Nagra, Grace Nichols, Louisa Adjoa
Parker, Michelle Scally-Clarke, Seni Seneviratne, John Siddique,
Lemn Sissay, Dorothea Smartt, Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, Benjamin
Zephaniah, and many others.
Without readers and audiences, viewers and consumers, the
postcolonial would be literally unthinkable. And yet, postcolonial
critics have historically neglected the modes of reception and
consumption that make up the politics, and pleasures of
meaning-making during and after empire. Thus, while recent
criticism and theory has made large claims for reading; as an
ethical act; as a means of establishing collective, quasi-political
consciousness; as identification with difference; as a mode of
resistance; and as an impulsion to the public imagination, the
reader in postcolonial literary studies persists as a shadowy
figure. This collection answers the now pressing need for a
distinctively postcolonial take on the rapidly expanding area of
reader and reception studies. Written by some of the top scholars
in the field, these essays reveal readers and reception to be
varied and profoundly unstable subjects that challenge many of our
assumptions and preconceptions of the postcolonial - from the
notion of reading as national fellowship to the demands of an
ethics of reading.
Scripting Empire recovers the literary and cultural history of West
Indian and West African writing at the BBC in order to rethink the
critical mid-century decades of shrinking British sovereignty, late
modernism, and mass migration to the metropole. Between the 1930s
and the 1960s, a remarkable group of black Atlantic artists and
intellectuals became producers, editors, and freelancers at the
corporation, including Una Marson, Langston Hughes, Louise Bennett,
Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, Amos Tutuola, V.S. Naipaul, Sam
Selvon, Cyprian Ekwensi, Stuart Hall, and C.L.R. James. Operating
at the interface of a range of literary and broadcast genres, this
loose network of African Caribbean writers and thinkers prompt a
reassessment of the aesthetic, formal, and political fallout of
decolonization between the outbreak of World War II and the first
airings of post-colonial independence. Scripting Empire works
comparatively across dozens of different programmes spanning the
General Overseas Service, Home Service, Light Programme, and Third
Programme. Drawing upon a transnational archive of materials
including scripts, correspondence, periodicals, visual records, and
sound recordings, it seeks to re-position the cultural contribution
of West Indians and West Africans within a more pervasive and
porous account of radio transmission, the legacy of which extends
well beyond broadcasting.
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