Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies

Stuart Hall’s work has been central to the formation and development of cultural studies as an international discipline. This is a collection of writings by and about Stuart Hall, and provides a representative selection of his writings on cultural studies and its concerns: the relationship with Marxism; postmodernism and New Times in cultural and political thought; the development of cultural studies as an international and post-colonial phenomenon; and Hall’s engagement with urgent and abiding questions of race, ethnicity and identity. In addition to presenting writings by Hall and new interviews with Hall in dialogue with Kuan-Hsing Chen, this collection provides a detailed analysis of Hall’s work and his contribution to the development of cultural studies by leading cultural critics and cultural practitioners. The book also includes a bibliography of Stuart Hall’s writings.