Parochial protest literature is no more politically effective than public relations work

Evidence

A jejune protest or parochial literature, be it black, gay or feminist, is in the long run no more politically effective than works which are merely public relations. What we need now, in this position, at this time, is imaginative writing that gives us a sense of the shifts and the difficulties within our society as a whole. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 267

Categorization

• XREF: Ties into the scaffolding goal: the demand that minority writing engage the larger society’s contradictions, not remain enclave literature, is a mechanism the Islamophobia field extends to representation of Muslims.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 267