‘Of becoming and disturbance - one final offering’ - some thoughts on Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands by Stuart Hall

ABSTRACT

This piece offers some reflections and associations on Stuart Hall’s last book Familiar Stranger. Whilst noticing some of the familiar preoccupations and theoretical approaches that became associated with Hall’s work, the piece notices the particular inflections of these in this last work. In doing so the piece comments on the affect of the book and draws attention to what seems to be the missing: an engagement with aspects of black feminist writing and how the content of Familiar Stranger might help understand that.

KEYWORDS:

• Belonging
• diasporic identity
• black feminism
• conjuncture
• voice

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