The White Man's World(1st Edition) by BillSchwarz Paperback, 600 Pages, Published 2013 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-968603-2, ISBN: 0-19-968603-3
"The Memories of Empire trilogy explores the complex and subterranean political currents that emerged in English society during the years of post-war decolonization. Just as the empire ended, when white princesses waltzed with new black heads of state in celebration of independence from colonial rule, the registers of racial whiteness in the home society quickened, and racial segregation - the colour bar - became ever more pronounced. Wh ..."
The White Man's World(1st Edition) (Memories of Empire) by BillSchwarz Hardcover, 656 Pages, Published 2012 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-929691-0, ISBN: 0-19-929691-X
"Memories of Empire is a trilogy which explores the complex, subterranean political currents which emerged in English society during the years of postwar decolonization. Bill Schwarz shows that, through the medium of memory, the empire was to continue to possess strange afterlives long after imperial rule itself had vanished.The White Man's World, the first volume in the trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the ..."
"Available in paperback for the first time, this first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Particular genres are also discussed, including the family saga, travel writing, detective fiction and popular romances. All included reflect on th ..."
James Baldwin America and Beyond by BillSchwarz, Cora Kaplan Paperback, 268 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-05152-6, ISBN: 0-472-05152-0
""This fine collection of essays represents an important contribution to the rediscovery of Baldwin's stature as essayist, novelist, black prophetic political voice, and witness to the Civil Rights era. The title provides an excellent thematic focus. He understood both the necessity, and the impossibility, of being a black 'American' writer. He took these issues 'Beyond'---Paris, Istanbul, various parts of Africa---but this formative exp ..."
Familiar Stranger(Reprint) A Life Between Two Islands (Stuart Hall: Selected Writings) by Stuart Hall, BillSchwarz Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2018 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-7140-3, ISBN: 0-8223-7140-5
""Sometimes I feel myself to have been the last colonial." This, in his own words, is the extraordinary story of the life and career of Stuart Hall—how his experiences shaped his intellectual, political, and theoretical work and how he became one of his age's brightest intellectual lights. Growing up in a middle-class family in 1930s Kingston, Jamaica, still then a British colony, the young Stuart Hall found himself uncomfortable in his ..."
Caribbean Literature after Independence The Case of Earl Lovelace by BillSchwarz Paperback, 220 Pages, Published 2008 by Institute Of Latin American Studies ISBN-13: 978-1-900039-91-8, ISBN: 1-900039-91-5
"Trinidad, historically located at the crossroads of the Americas, has produced an incomparable national literature, fashioning genres that have informed the Caribbean region as a whole. One of the greatest contemporary Trinidadian writers is Earl Lovelace. His novelistic performative epics combine the rhythms of steelband and calypso with the narrative complexity of Faulkner. Lovelace was an early enthusiast for Black Power and remains ..."
"Caribbean migration to Britain brought many new things - new musics, new foods, new styles. It brought new ways of thinking too. This innovative book explores the intellectual ideas which the West Indians brought with them to Britain. It shows that for more than a century West Indians living in Britain developed a dazzling intellectual critique of the codes of imperial Britain. In this comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thi ..."
The Expansion of England(1st Edition) Race, Ethnicity and Cultural History by BillSchwarz, William Schwars Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1996 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-06026-4, ISBN: 0-415-06026-5
"The organized study of history began in Britain when the Empire was at its height. Belief in the destiny of imperial England profoundly shaped the imagination of the first generation of professional historians. But with the Empire ended, do these mental habits still haunt historical explanation? Drawing on postcolonial theory in a lively mix of historical and theoretical chapters, The Expansion of England explores the history of the Bri ..."
Familiar Stranger A Life Between Two Islands (Stuart Hall: Selected Writings) by Stuart Hall, BillSchwarz Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2017 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-6387-3, ISBN: 0-8223-6387-9
""Sometimes I feel myself to have been the last colonial." This, in his own words, is the extraordinary story of the life and career of Stuart Hall how his experiences shaped his intellectual, political, and theoretical work and how he became one of his age's brightest intellectual lights. Growing up in a middle-class family in 1930s Kingston, Jamaica, still then a British colony, the young Stuart Hall found himself uncomfortable in his ..."
"Selected Political Writings gathers Stuart Hall's best-known and most important essays that directly engage with political issues. Written between 1957 and 2011 and appearing in publications such as New Left Review and Marxism Today, these twenty essays span the whole of Hall's career, from his early involvement with the New Left, to his critique of Thatcherism, to his later focus on neoliberalism. Whether addressing economic decline an ..."
"Memory has never been closer to us, yet never more difficult to understand. In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. The volume reconstructs the work of the great philosophical and literary figures of the last two centuries who recast the concept of memory and brought it into the forefr ..."
James Baldwin America and Beyond by BillSchwarz, Cora Kaplan 258 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-02761-3, ISBN: 0-472-02761-1
"George Shulman discusses this aspect of Baldwin more fully in chapter 5 of this
volume, “Baldwin, Prophecy, and Politics.” 2. Bloch, Strange Defeat, 118. 3.
Gaines, “Closing Plenary Panel,” James Baldwin: Work, Life, Legacies, 28-30
June, 2007. What this may mean, and the complexities involved, are addressed
by Robert Reid-Pharr in chapter 6 of this volume, “Rendezvous with Life.” 4.
McBride, “Introduction,” 8-9. 5. Particularly Ki ..."
"Selected Political Writings gathers Stuart Hall's best-known and most important essays that directly engage with political issues. Written between 1957 and 2011 and appearing in publications such as New Left Review and Marxism Today, these twenty essays span the whole of Hall's career, from his early involvement with the New Left, to his critique of Thatcherism, to his later focus on neoliberalism. Whether addressing economic decline an ..."