Inhabiting the diasporic habitus: on Stuart Hall's Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands. Issue 1 (2nd January 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ang, Ien
• Is Part Of: Identities. Volume 25:Issue 1(2018)
• Page Start: 1
• Page End: 6
• Publication Date: 2018-01-02
• Subjects: Stuart Hall -- diaspora -- Jamaica -- Englishness -- colonialism; Ethnic groups -- Periodicals; Race relations -- Periodicals; Ethnic relations -- Periodicals; Ethnicity -- Periodicals; Group identity -- Periodicals; 301
• DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2017.1412140
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1070-289X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This reading of Stuart Hall's memoir Familiar Stranger highlights the connection between Hall's unique intellectual voice with the historical specificity of his personal experience as a diasporic subject, growing up at the cusp of the moment of decolonisation, before the solidification of what we now call 'identity politics'.