Crusoe's Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America / Edition 1

by Patrick Brantlinger

Overview

"Cultural Studies" has emerged in British and American higher education as a movement that challenges the traditional humanities and social science disciplines. Influenced by the New Left, feminism, and poststructualist literary theory, cultural studies seeks to analyze everday life and the social construction of "subjectivities." Crusoe's Footprints encompasses the movement of many colleges and universities in the 1960s towards such interdisciplinary and "radical" programs as American Studies, Women's Studies, and Afro-American Studies. Brantlinger also examines the role of feminist criticism which has been particularly crucial in both Britain and the U.S.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415902847
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/27/1990
Series:	Primary Socialization, Language and
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Patrick Brantlinger teaches at Indiana University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Humanities (and a Lot More) in Crisis; Chapter 2 Cultural Studies in Britain; Chapter 3 From Althusser to Gramsci: The Question of Ideology; Chapter 4 Class, Gender, Race; Chapter 5 Mass Culture, Postmodernism, and Theories of Communication; Works Cited; Index;