The Hippest
Terry Eagleton, 7 March 1996
Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues
edited by David Morley and Kuan-Hsing Chen.
Routledge, 514 pp., £45, February 1996,0 415 08803 8 Show More
edited by David Morley and Kuan-Hsing Chen.
Routledge, 514 pp., £45, February 1996,
“... to New Times, Leavis to Lyotard, Aldermaston to ethnicity. He is also a Marxian version of Dorian Gray, a preternaturally youthful character whose personal style evokes a range of faded American epithets: hip, neat, cool, right-on. There are two ways to recount his story, one less charitable than the other. The more jaundiced narrative is one of a relentless ... ”