Bill Schwarz
Bill Schwarz | |
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| Born | 22 December 1951 |
| Nationality | English |
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Postcolonial history | |
| Notable works | Memories of Empire: The White Man's World (2011) |
Bill Schwarz (born 1951) is an English historian,
Early life
Schwarz was born on 22 December 1951.[4]
Career
Academia
Bill Schwarz studied English and history at the
He has also lectured at numerous other educational institutions internationally, including
Writing
Schwarz has written and edited books on postcolonialism, British cultural and political history, and 20th-century Caribbean and North American writers including George Lamming, Earl Lovelace, and James Baldwin.[2]
Schwarz's 2011 work Memories of Empire: The White Man's World, a study of colonial society towards the end of the
He co-authored Stuart Hall's posthumously published memoir Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands (2017), about which Colin Grant wrote in The Guardian: "The conversational tone of the book has emerged from the hours of interviews Schwarz conducted with Hall over a number of years. The project began as a collaboration, and clearly Schwarz is a faithful amanuensis. Answering the need to reduce this material to a manageable form, he arranges each chapter with a foreword, argument and afterword, which gives the flavour of an extended series of talks. ... Familiar Stranger reads as a subtle and subversive memoir of the end of empire."[9] The reviewer for Black Perspectives concluded: "An undeniable boon to cultural and postcolonial studies, Stuart Hall and Bill Schwarz's Familiar Stranger turns the traditional memoir on its head, and produced an engaging exchange about race, identity, colonialism, and culture."[10]
Selected bibliography
- West Indian Intellectuals in Britain (Studies in Imperialism series), ISBN 978-0719064753
- Memories of Empire: The White Man's World (Volume I), ISBN 978-0199686032
- With ISBN 978-0-8223-6387-3
- As editor
- The Locations of George Lamming, Warwick University Caribbean Studies series, Macmillan, Oxford, 2007, ISBN 978-1405067829
- Caribbean Literature After Independence. The Case of Earl Lovelace, ISBN 978-1900039918
- With Susannah Radstone, Memory. Histories, Theories, Debates, ISBN 978-0823232598paperback
- With Cora Kaplan, James Baldwin. America and Beyond, ISBN 978-0472051526
- With Rachael Gilmour, End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945, Manchester University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0719097454
References
- ISBN 978-0-674-01384-1.
- ^ a b c d e "Bill Schwarz, BA (York), Professor of English", Queen Mary, University of London.
- ^ "Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands", Duke University Press, April 2017.
- ^ "Schwarz, Bill, 1951- - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies | Library of Congress, from LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)".
- ^ Debra, "Stuart Hall and Cultural Studies at UEL", Centre for Cultural Studies Research, University of East London, 18 February 2014.
- ^ "Bill Schwarz, BA (York), Professor of English | Public Engagement", Queen Mary, University of London.
- ^ "Bill Schwarz", The Heyman Centre.
- ^ "Queen Mary’s Bill Schwarz wins Book of the Year at Longman/History Today Awards" Archived 2018-09-15 at the Wayback Machine, Queen Mary University of London, 11 January 2013.
- ^ Colin Grant, "Familiar Stranger by Stuart Hall review – from Jamaica to the New Left and Thatcherism", The Guardian, 31 March 2017.
- ^ Marlene Gaynair, "Stuart Hall: 'Familiar Stranger' of the Black Atlantic", Black Perspectives, AAIHS, July 2018.
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