Helton Levy

Category: Eurocentrism

  • Book review: Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq

    I just read Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq and wrote a few lines #bookreviews

  • Reading Stuart Hall in 2017

    Two new publications feature the life and work of academic and postcolonial thinker Stuart Hall: Familiar Stranger (Allen Lane) and Selected Writings (Duke University Press). Both were reviewed by Tony Jefferson for a recent edition of Theory, Culture, and Society. On Familiar Stranger we find: “Originally conceived more than 20 years ago as a short dialogue outlining Hall’s intellectual trajectory, it…

  • Book review – British Representations of Latin America, Luz Elena Ramirez

    While not officially part of the British Empire, interactions between Britain and Latin America have existed in reports, literary accounts, and detail-rich descriptions. Reading a variety of 19th century British writers, we find similarities in reports from many distinct countries that constitute what we call by Latin America; countries as distinct from each other as…