Seeing and feeling in a life in-between

This article introduces a roundtable that consists of short reflections on Stuart Hall's posthumously published memoir, Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two Islands. Written in collaboration with Bill Schwarz and completed after his death, the genre-defying text recounts aspects of a diasporic life lived "between two islands." The essays take inbetweenness in Familiar Stranger seriously, treating it as symptomatic of Hall's locative position and as an indispensable feature of his thought. Approaching the book from the perspective of varying fields and concerns, the authors draw attention to how it opens a space between past and present; metropole and colony; high and low cultural forms; Jamaica and Britain; history and memory; seeing and knowing.