Rappresentazione e visualità nel pensiero di Stuart Hall

Marina Vitale

Abstract

Starting from Stuart Hall’s notion that «art is a way of thinking», the article concentrates on the centrality of visuality in his theory of representation – namely of gender and ethnic identities. It explores the mutual relation of inspiration between Hall the diasporic theorist of ethnicity and several generations of diasporic artists, especially video artists and photographers. Special attention is given to John Akomfrah’s filmic work: to his The Nine Muses which powerfully and poetically sings the drama of the Windrush generation, and The Stuart Hall Project which is both about Hall and deeply structured by the cultural studies rational.

 

Marina Vitale, former professor of English Literature and culture at the univerities of Naples and Salerno, has published on working class and radical writing in the 1930s (Le voci di Calibano, 1988; L’altra Inghilterra, 1993) and in the Ninenenteeth century (Stampa e cultura popolare nel primo Ottocento, with Maria del Sapio, 1982), on literacy and the politics of reading in the early Nineteenth century, on Shakespearian revisitations, on women and writing in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries, especially on the modernist women intellectuals and writers – chiefly on H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) some of whose works she also translated into Italian.

 

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