English Studies/culture Studies: Institutionalizing DissentIsaiah Smithson, Nancy Ruff The phrase 'English studies/culture studies' denotes a shift from the New Critical concept of the text and the reader--separable from each other and from their culture--to an affirmation that texts, writers, readers, and culture are intertwined. Teachers working within culture studies accept that they are working with multiple, expanding canons and with students who are increasingly aware of diverse ethnic heritages. Marxism, feminism, and cultural critique are major influences: so are ethnic studies programs and the British cultural studies movement. |
Contents
Dissenting Voices within Culture Studies | 25 |
Cultural Studies versus the New Historicism | 43 |
Can Cultural Studies Speak Spanish? | 59 |
Passing as Pedagogy Feminism into Cultural Studies | 76 |
Elder Wisdom Native American Culture Studies | 94 |
Griots Bluesicians DuesPayers and Pedagogues An AfricanAmerican Autobiographical 1960s View of Culture Studies | 108 |
Asian Immigrant Confessions of a Yellow Man | 127 |
Impact of Culture Studies on the Institutions of English Studies | 143 |
Institutional Identity at the State University of New York at Albany The New PhD in English | 157 |
Burning the Commodity at Both Ends Cultural Studies and Rhetoric in the FirstYear Curriculum at CarnegieMellon University | 167 |
The Heath Anthology and Cultural Boundaries | 180 |
Always Already Cultural Studies Academic Conferences and a Manifesto | 191 |
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Contributors | 221 |
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