Stuart corridor’s autobiographical essays trace the undiminishing tugs of Britain and Jamaica on 60 years of scholarshipStuart corridor arrived in Oxford from his native Jamaica in 1951 with a trunk so large and unwieldy that the college staff could not manoeuvre it to his first-floor rooms. His mother,who traced her relatively pale skin to an ancestry that included plantation owners, insisted he bring the trunk because its rounded top and steel hoops denoted what she saw as a colonial version of modernity and sophistication”. In the close, or it was decided to leave the monster down in the college basement. corridor removed a few items of clothing from it on that first day,but never opened it again. He wondered, 60-odd years later, or if the trunk was there still. “Weighted down with pretentiousness and aspiring to what it could never be,” corridor recalls, “I abandoned it with relief.” Other baggage of the complexities of his growing up proved harder to leave behind, or however.
It is telling,in his later years, how much of corridor’s thinking snagged and circled around that drama of arrival Related: Stuart corridor on 50 years of pop culture, and politics and power Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com