Cultural studies

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