What's my name? Organic and vernacular intellectuals

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" What's my name? Organic and vernacular intellectuals "
G. A. Farred

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	71004
Doc. No	:	TL29933
Call number	:	‭9734241‬
Main Entry	:	G. A. Farred
Title & Author	:	What's my name? Organic and vernacular intellectuals\ G. A. Farred
College	:	Princeton University
Date	:	1997
Degree	:	Ph.D.
student score	:	1997
Page No	:	305
Abstract	:	What's My Name? Organic and Vernacular Intellectuals is a study of the different processes through which four figures, C. L. R. James, Stuart Hall, Muhammad Ali and Bob Marley, construct themselves as postcolonial intellectuals. I am concerned here with the ways in in which these figures locate themselves in relation to the question of black liberation and political independence. From an array of locations and with markedly different ideological investments, these intellectuals are all interested in making community within and beyond their national boundaries. By mapping the concept of the intellectual through such variegated personas, this project explores the range of ways in which intellectual work is performed--and argues for why all these different forms should be understood as "intellectual." This project challenges the policing of the term "intellectual," arguing that by hierachizing the term we lose sight of the political and ideological function done by cultural figures--and we overlook the ways in which popular culture informs the articulations of those conventionally recognized as intellectuals. Using Gramsci's work as a template, James is represented as a figure who melds the "traditional" and the "organic" into a dynamic intellectual persona--one in which race and sport are of pivotal importance. Hall is positioned as the prototypical Gramscian intellectual, the figure who not only disseminates the Italian theorist's writings, but offers a model of how to do Gramscian work from within and outside the academy. Working from Gramsci's notion of the organic, Ali and Marley are positioned as vernacular intellectuals: popular cultural figures who represent marginal communities in an antagonistic hegemonic public sphere. These two popular icons provide us with the opportunity to think seriously about how cultural figures impact public debates and how they make interventions--often efficaciously--from outside the conventional political realm. Simply put: Ali and Marley perform the same political function--and they address larger audiences--as those figures who are conventionally accepted as "intellectuals." This project provides a theoretical vocabulary with which to engage these figures and their work.
Subject	:	Language, literature and linguistics; Ali, Muhammad; Hall, Stuart; James, C. L. R.@; Marley, Bob; postcolonial; British and Irish literature; Caribbean literature; 0593:British and Irish literature; 0360:Caribbean literature
Added Entry	:	Princeton University