Beyond Britain: Stuart Hall and the Postcolonializing of Anglophone Cultural Studies

Postwar Britain witnessed the concurrent evolution of two new intellectual movements which have since become institutionalized as two major academic fields of enquiry: cultural studies and postcolonial studies. Although both fields are enormously diverse, they have developed a parallel focus around the place of individuals in terms of race, ethnicity, class and gender. Using the work of Stuart Hall, a figure uniquely positioned in both fields, 'Beyond Britain' offers a rich cultural-historical study of the evolution of both movements.