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This volume collects over two dozen of Stuart Hall’s essays, lectures, reviews, catalog texts, and conversations on art, film, and photography, providing rare insights into his engagement with the intellectual and aesthetic space of the visual imaginary.
List of contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. Detour to the Imaginary: Stuart Hall’s Writings on the Visual Arts and Culture / Gilane Tawadros 1
Prologue. Subjects in History: Making Diasporic Identities [1998] 19
Part I. Thinking-With/In the Image
1. Isaac Julien’s Workshop [2013] 31
2. Democracy, Globalization, and Difference [2001] 39
3. The Way We Live Now [2004] 55
Part II. The New Politics of Representation: Black Film/British Cinema
4. New Ethnicities [1988] 65
5. Threatening Pleasures: A Conversation between Homi Bhabha, Paul Gilrory, and Stuart Hall [1991] 77
6. A Rage in Harlesden [1998] 86
7. Cultural Identity and Cinematic Representation [1992] 93
Part III. Fanon, Creolization, and Diaspora
8. The After-Life of Frantz-Fanon: Why Fanon? Why Now? Why
Black Skins, White Masks? [1996] 111
9.
Créolité and the Process of Creolization [2003] 132
10. Legacies of Anglo-Caribbean Culture: A Diasporic Perspective [2007] 148
Part IV. Assembling the 1980s
11. Minimal Selves [1988] 173
12. Assembling the 1980s: The Deluge—and After [2005] 180
Part V. Photography, Representation, and Black Identity
13. The Vertigo of Displacement: Shifts within Black Documentary Practices [1992] / David A. Bailey and Stuart Hall 203
14. Preface to
Different [2001] 213
15. “Speak Easy”: Black in the Seventies [2012] 223
Part VI. Reconstruction Work: Histories, Archives, and Diaspora
16. Reconstruction Work: Images of Post-war Black Settlement [1984] 239
17. The “West Indian” Front Room [2009] 250
18. Constituting the Archive [2001] 260
19. Whose Heritage: Unsettling “The Heritage,” Reimagining the Post-Nation [1999] 268
20. Modernity and Its Others: Three “Moments” in the Post-war History of the Black Diaspora Arts [2006] 283
Part VII. Museums, Modernity, and Difference
21. Museums of Modern Art and the End of History [2001] 309
22. Modernity and Difference: A Conversation between Stuart Hall and Sarat Maharaj [2004] 322
Part VIII. Dreaming in Afro
23. Chris Ofili in Paradise: Dreaming in Afro [2003] 341
24. Maps of Emergency: Fault Lines and Tectonic Plates [2003] 349
Place of First Publication 367
Index
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Summary
This volume collects over two dozen of Stuart Hall’s essays, lectures, reviews, catalog texts, and conversations on art, film, and photography, providing rare insights into his engagement with the intellectual and aesthetic space of the visual imaginary.
