Thinking Activity : Unit 2 Cultural studies :
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What is Cultural studies ?
Cultural studies is an innovative interdisciplinary field of research and teaching that investigates the ways in which “culture” creates and transforms individual experiences, everyday life, social relations and power. Cultural Studies traces the relationships among aesthetic, anthropological, and political economic aspects of cultural production and reproduction. Cultural Studies relies on interdisciplinary research on the formation of knowledge, power, and difference. Cultural Studies scholars and practitioners explore constructions of race, class, ability, citizenship, gender, and sexuality in their effort to understand the structures and practices of domination and resistance that shape contemporary societies.
Types of Cultural Studies :
Culture is a word that is impossible to describe in one word. Culture is something that reflects on your identity. To know more about culture, we have to study about it. The "culture" itself is so hard to decipher and the "cultural studies" are so difficult to determine. “Cultural studies” is not so much a specific approach, but rather a set of practices.
If we go deep into the meaning of cultural studies, we find that Cultural Studies is an educational field of critical theory and literary criticism that was started by British academies in 1964 and subsequently adopted by fellow academics around the world. Cultural studies is an academic discipline that assists cultural researchers, who provide theories about the forces through which the whole of humanity builds their daily lives. It is not a unified theory, but a study of a variety of fields incorporating different approach methods and educational properties.
"The culture of a nation lives in the heart and in the lives of its people."
Five Types of Cultural Studies :
(1) British Cultural Materialism
(2) New Historicism
(3) American Multiculturalism
(1) African American Writers
(2) Latina/o Writers
(3) American Indian Literatures
(4) Asian American Writers
(4) Postmodernism and Popular Culture
(5) Postcolonial Studies
Question : 1 What is your understanding about British cultural Materialism?
Cultural materialism in literary theory and cultural studies traces its origins to the work of left-leaning literary critic Raymond Williams. Cultural studies in Britain is known as "cultural materialism" and has a long tradition.
Cultural materialism says that the best way to understand human culture is to examine the physical conditions. Cultural materialism analyzes on the basis of critical theory in the tradition of the Frankfurt School. In the next 19th century, Matthew Arnold sought to redefine "given" British culture. The post-war methods of cultural literary criticism portray left-leaning trendy cultural materialism, aesthetically, formally acknowledged, ant historical historiography and politicized. Cultural materialism is also about culture or membership. cultural studies emerged as a theoretical movement in the early 1980s, with a new historical historiography, an American approach to modern early literature, with which it has a very common area. The term was coined by Williams, who used leftist culture to describe theoretical fusion and Marxist analysis, cultural materialists deal with specific historical historical documents and try to analyze and recreate the zoologist of the political movement in history. Ironically the threat to his project was mass culture. Raymond Williams lamented the richness of honest forms of life. Williams viewed culture as a "productive process", often referring to the resources of production and cultural materialism that he referred to as "residual", "evocative" and "anti" cultural elements that followed in the tradition of Herbert Marcuse. Antonio Gramsci and others expand the class-based analysis of traditional Marxism, with an additional focus on marginalizing cultural materialists. cultural physicists analyze the process by which hegemonic forces in society use texts such as Shenopier and Us Stein, of historical significance and use them in an attempt to validate or imply certain values on cultural fantasy. The political Shakespearean Jonathan Dolimore and Alan Sinfield writers have made a significant impact in the development of this movement and his book is considered to be a semi-text. They have identified four defining characteristics of cultural materialism as a theoretical device.
"Cultural materialism is a school of thought in anthropology."
Cultural materialism says that the best way to understand human culture is to examine the physical conditions. Cultural materialism analyzes on the basis of critical theory in the tradition of the Frankfurt School. In the next 19th century, Matthew Arnold sought to redefine "given" British culture. The post-war methods of cultural literary criticism portray left-leaning trendy cultural materialism, aesthetically, formally acknowledged, ant historical historiography and politicized. Cultural materialism is also about culture or membership. cultural studies emerged as a theoretical movement in the early 1980s, with a new historical historiography, an American approach to modern early literature, with which it has a very common area. The term was coined by Williams, who used leftist culture to describe theoretical fusion and Marxist analysis, cultural materialists deal with specific historical historical documents and try to analyze and recreate the zoologist of the political movement in history. Ironically the threat to his project was mass culture. Raymond Williams lamented the richness of honest forms of life. Williams viewed culture as a "productive process", often referring to the resources of production and cultural materialism that he referred to as "residual", "evocative" and "anti" cultural elements that followed in the tradition of Herbert Marcuse. Antonio Gramsci and others expand the class-based analysis of traditional Marxism, with an additional focus on marginalizing cultural materialists. cultural physicists analyze the process by which hegemonic forces in society use texts such as Shenopier and Us Stein, of historical significance and use them in an attempt to validate or imply certain values on cultural fantasy. The political Shakespearean Jonathan Dolimore and Alan Sinfield writers have made a significant impact in the development of this movement and his book is considered to be a semi-text. They have identified four defining characteristics of cultural materialism as a theoretical device.
Question : 2 What is contribution of Michael Foucault in new historicism?
From Foucault, new historical historians developed the idea of a comprehensive "totalizing" function of observable cultures in its literary texts, called the Fascault Epistem. Focal history was not the work of "universal" ideas: because we do not know the governing ideas of the past or present, we should not imagine that we have a "center" for mapping the "real".
Question : 3 How can new historicists help in answering the question raised against Laputa episode in Gulliver Travels?
In "Flying Island and Female Anatomy: Strengths in Gynecology and Gulliver's Travels," Susan Bruce provides a reading of Book III that makes some new historical historiographical sense with Luputa's use of Swift. Bruce examines a four-volume commentary on Gulliver's Travels by a Corolini de Marco, in which the author gives a fairly dry share of his observations until Episode IV of the book,"A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms, " in which Gulliver captures rabbits for food.
Question : 4 Exemplify four types of analysis of popular culture. Apply it on popular artefacts.
There are four main types of popular culture analysis :
(1) Production Analysis :
It ask quotations like:
(a) Who own the media?
(b) Who create text and why?
(c) How democratic of elitist is production of popular culture ?
(d) What about works written only for money?
(2) Textual analysis:
It examines how specific works of popular culture created meanings.
(3) Audience analysis:
it asks different group of popular culture consumers or users, make similar of different sense of some texts.
(4) Historical analysis:
It investigates how these other three dimensions over times.
It ask quotations like:
(a) Who own the media?
(b) Who create text and why?
(c) How democratic of elitist is production of popular culture ?
(d) What about works written only for money?
(2) Textual analysis:
It examines how specific works of popular culture created meanings.
(3) Audience analysis:
it asks different group of popular culture consumers or users, make similar of different sense of some texts.
(4) Historical analysis:
It investigates how these other three dimensions over times.
Question : 5 Difference between modernism and postmodernism.
Modernity relied on the use of rational, logical ways to acquire knowledge, while northern modernity rejected the use of logical thinking. In modernity, art and literary works were considered as unique works of artists. The authors were serious about the purpose of producing artists and literary works.
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