The Power of the Third Voice

The publication of the three conferences given by Stuart Hall at Harvard in 1994 was necessary, three years after his death. As emphasized by Kobena Mercer in his introduction, they confirm the topicality of the theoretical propositions put forth by the author ever since the beginning of the 1960s, opening a new reflection field by making culture one of the approaches to theorising power relationships. According to Hall and all those working on social, colonial and postcolonial issues, the effects of migration on national constructs in the West, and particularly in colonising countries, created an upheaval by shifting forms of authority. The analysis of notions of race, ethnicity and nation that he articulated at the prestigious American university still resonate with the same acuity almost 25 years later. The Fateful Triangle offers a pleasant perspective: to be able to immerse in the reflections that coincided with the joint formulation of cultural and postcolonial theories, backed by different disciplines (such as comparative literature and political, social and art history), in a context affected by historical discontinuities. Although they are rooted in ideological, religious, ethnical and racial conflicts, these discontinuities produce cultural disjunctions, such as the German reunification in 1990, the first Gulf War, the Algerian civil war, the Oslo Accord in 1993, the Sarajevo siege from 1992 to 1996, and the official end of the South-African apartheid in 1994

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• The Fateful Triangle

  Open Access•Stuart Hall, Jr Henry Louis Gates et al.•Fateful Triangle•2017

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