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Name : Gohil Hetalba I. Roll no : 08 M.A. -1st Sem -2 Paper no : 08 Topic : Five types of Cultural Studies Submitted to : Dr. Dilip Barad Dept. Of English M.K. Bhavnagar University year – 2012 – 2013
Cultural studies Type
Cultural studies Type
British Cultural MaterialismNew Historicism
Postcolonial Studies
Postmodernism and popular culture
American Multiculturalism
British Cultural Materialism“ There are no masses , there are only ways of
seeing (other) people as masses .”
- Williams Britain had two trajectories for culture First leads to ~> past ~> culture act as
preserver Second leads to ~> future differentiates
Labour class Leisure class
Conti….. Some cultural materialists are Inspired : Walter Benjamin : Leni Riefenstaht( Triumph movie of the Wil)
: Lukacs (Reflection Theory ) Cultural materialists also turned to : Insights : Humanistic : Spiritual
New Historicism
New HistoricistsSeek Surprising
coincidences
GenericHistoricalCultural lines
borrow
Metaphor ceremonyPopular culture
Conti……
Stephen Greenblatt coined the word New Criticism . ‘ New Historicism ’ explains the word ‘ Laputa ’ from Gulliver’s Travels.
Laputa The Whoremeans
American Multiculturalism
American Multiculturalism includes
AfricanAmericanwriters
Latina/ writers( Mexican AmericanWriters)
American IndianLiterature
Asian American Writers
Subject
Tragedy
Irony
Bitter Comedy
Bicultural identity
Parody
Naturalistic focus on survival
Postmodernism and Popular Culture
Post modernism
Ambiguity
De humanization
Fragmentation
Ambiguity
• egs : 1. The Wasteland – T.S. Eliot• 2. Ulysses - James Joyce
Popular CulturePopular Culture
Textual analysis
Historical analysis
Audience analysis
Production analysis
Reshaped
Popular culture
ethnicity race
gender
class
age
region
sexuality
Postcolonial Studies
Post Colonial Theorists
E.M. Foster
Rudyard Kipling Jean Rhys
Jamaica Kincaid
Homi K Bhabha analysed postcolonial theory
Homi Bhabha
nationality
ethnicity
politics
He critiques dichotomies
CentrePeriphery
between
