Dialogues on Cultural Studies: Interviews with Contemporary Critics

by Shaobo Xie (Editor), Wang Fengzhen (Editor)

Overview

How should the project of cultural studies change for the twenty-first century? Does theory have general application? How should we evaluate revolutions? How should we define countries, like China, on the margins of modernity and post-modernity? Is a neo-Orientalism emerging in today's world?

These are questions Shaobo Xie and Wang Fengzhen ask a panel of North America's leading cultural critics. What emerges is a remarkable collection of interviews and dialogues that discuss culture, ideology, history, Marxism, modernity, post-modernity, post-colonialism, globalization, and the role of the university and the intellectual in today' society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781552380741
Publisher:	University of Calgary Press
Publication date:	11/30/2002
Pages:	298
Product dimensions:	0.24(w) x 0.35(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Shaobo Xie is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary.

Wang Fengzhen is a research fellow at the Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing.

With Contributions By: Arif Dirlik, Teresa Ebert, Barbara Foley, Fredric Jameson, Pamela McCallum, J. Hillis Miller, Maso Miyoshi, Bruce Robbins, John Carlos Rowe, Henry Schwarz, Richard Terdiman, and Hayden Whyte

Table of Contents

Introduction
Interview Questions
Arif Dirlik
Teresa Ebert
Barbara Foley
Frederic Jameson
Pamela McCallum
J. Hillis Miller
Masao Miyoshi
Bruce Robbins
John Carlos Rowe
Henry Schwarz
Richard Terdiman
Hayden White
Bibliography
Index

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Since the 1980s, dialogue with China has been crucial in sharpening critical thought among American literary and cultural academic intellectuals, and this new volume carries that exchange into important new places, as a dozen distinct voices from America—including historians, feminists, and world-famous theorists—reply freely and deeply to an agenda of challenging questions from two Chinese scholars looking to the future.

—Jonathan Arac, Columbia University

Editorial Reviews

This collection distinguishes itself from other collections of interviews . . . the editors offer an insightful sampling of illuminating dialogues, which also make the volume particularly valuable for classroom use in courses in cultural studies.

—Robert Wess, University of Toronto Quarterly

From the Publisher