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Book SynopsisThe essays in this collection are a tribute to Stuart Hall, and to the outstanding contribution he has made to contemporary cultural, social and political thought. The central figure in the development of Cultural Studies, Hall's writing has influenced a whole generation of intellectuals. Some contributors reflect and comment on Hall's contribution; others continue to develop some of his key themes. But most share a focus on reconnecting his work with Jamaica - his birthplace - and the wider Caribbean.
Table of ContentsContents * Brian Meeks Introduction: Return of a Native Son * Rex Nettleford The Caribbean and Cultural Studies * Michael Rustin Stuart Hall's Political Writing * Bill Schwarz Reading with the Grain * Gilane Tawadros The Revolution Stripped Bare * Avtar Brah Feminism, 'Race' and Stuart Hall's Diasporic Imagination * Grant Farred Locating the 'Popular Arts' in the Stuart Hall Oeuvre * Lawrence Grossberg Cultural Studies and the Philosophy of Conjuncturalism * Charles Mills Changing Representations of Race * Cecilia Green Thomas Thistlewood as Agent and Medium of Eighteenth-Century Jamaican Society * Obika Grey Civic Politics in Jamaica * Anthony Borgues Rethinking the Political in the Caribbean * Sonjah Stanley Niaah and Donna Hope The Body and Dancehall Performance * Percy Hintzen Diaspora, Globalisation and the Politics of Identity * Stuart Hall Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life
