Crusoe's Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America

Crusoe's Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America
ISBN-10
1136038140
ISBN-13
9781136038143
Category
Art
Pages
223
Language
English
Published
2013-02-01
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Patrick Brantlinger

Description

"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.

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