1956 turned Hall from literary scholarship to cultural questions

Evidence

I gave it up literally because of 1956. I gave it up in a deeper sense because I was increasingly using my research time to read about culture and to follow that line of interest. I spent a great deal of time in Rhodes House library, reading the anthropological literature and absorbing the debate about African “survivals” in Caribbean and New World culture. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 799

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘African survivals’ debate recurs in Hall’s later work and connects to the construction of cultural identity central to colonial studies readings.