The autobiographical fragment by Allon White entitled 'Too close to the bone', which was published in 1989 in the London Review of Books, has just been republished by the LRB, this time in book form.[*] Allon taught at the University of Sussex until he died in 1988 at the age of 37. He was the author of The Uses of Obscurity and (with Peter Stallybrass) The Politics and Poetics of Transgression. A collection of fugitive pieces, Carnival, Hysteria and Writing, will be published by Oxford next year with an introduction by Stuart Hall, with whom Allon studied at the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies.

LRB 29 August 1991 | PDF Download