... Latin American cultural studies. Published in Span- ish through the Chilean editorial house Cuarto Propio, Nuevas per­ spectivas desde/sobre América Latina: El desafío de los estudios culturales (New Perspectives from/about Latin America: The Challenge of Cul- tural Studies) offered essays...

...Imre Szeman Does it make sense to speak of a global cultural studies? This review essay examines the apparent critical aversion to such a category by exploring the approaches taken by two books that consider the state of cultural studies in the global era. Ackbar Abbas and John Nguyet Erni's...

...Todd J. Goddard © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 Goddard 153 Todd J. Goddard The Cultural Work of Literature and the Law (on W. C. Harris, E Pluribus Unum: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Constitutional...

... . Terkel Studs . Touch and Go . New York : The New Press , 2007 . Wills Gary . “He Interviewed the Nation.” New York Review of Books 18 Dec. 2008 : 53 - 4 . Victor Cohen “Hope Dies Last”: Cultural Studies and Studs Terkel As an undergraduate, I was drawn to the world...

...Oded Nir This article argues that Mao’s writing on contradiction and cultural revolution allows us to understand Zionism in a unique Marxist perspective, as a failed cultural revolution. The author first presents Mao’s writing on contradictions, and the historical interactions among them...

...Courtney Moffett-Bateau Abstract This article offers a history of Black thought as it has been represented or underrepresented in the university by tracing the phenomenon of the US American cultural wars to the Civil War. The article discusses the displacement of Black knowledges from predominantly...

...Jeffrey J. Williams 2005 the minnesota review 2005 Jeffrey J. Williams Culture and Policy: An Interview with Mark Bauerlein Mark Bauerlein has been Director of Research and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for the past two years, notably...

... than 1,300 Institutions . 18 Apr. 2008 . < http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i32/32a02001.htm >. Harvey David . Conditions of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change . Cambridge, MA : Blackwell , 1989 . Keller George . Academic Strategy...

..., American Historical Association , 29 December 1931 . < http://www.historians.org/info/aha_history/clbecker.htm > . Dickstein Morris . Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties . Cambridge, MA : Harvard UP , 1997 . ---. Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American...

...: I am interested in the way in which “cultural studies” has come to be demonized as the other side of a proper scholarship that fantasizes about a return to respectable normative disciplinarity and in the way in which what Lacan theorizes and performs in this seminar—the work of what he calls...

...Jeffrey J. Williams © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 Jeffrey J. Williams The Culture of Books: An Interview with Janice Radway While deconstruction theorized difficulties of reading, Jan Radway talked to real readers about what they were doing. Her first book, Reading...

...Jeffrey J. Williams © 2008 the minnesota review 2008 Jeffrey J. Williams Reconstructing Culture: An Interview with Hazel Carby By the 1980s, literary studies had begun to recognize traditions of African-American literature and of women’s literature. But the emerging...

...Victor Cohen © 2008 the minnesota review 2008 Victor Cohen The Labor of Culture: An Interview with Michael Denning The 1930s are often considered a dull, didactic time in art and culture—falling off from the height of modernism as the US was mired in the Great...

...David Cerniglia © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 David Cerniglia The Culture of Argument: An Interview with Amanda Anderson Amanda Anderson diagnoses some of the glitches of contemporary theory and advocates a renewed standard of rational debate in her book, The Way We Argue...

...Florian Zappe Abstract This introduction provides a short survey of the history of academic culture wars as a recurring phenomenon in the history of the modern university. It then outlines the concept of this special section as a nonpartisan and metaperspectival critical discussion of various...

...Pierre-Héli Monot Abstract This article discusses the politics of time in the culture wars of the 1980s by way of three comments on the discursive and political uses of the conceptual pairs historicism/ otium , reform/revolution, and emergency/patience. This article argues that (1) the culture wars...

...Susan Hegeman Abstract This article compares episodes in two historical moments in the United States, the 1960s and the present, to interrogate how public universities have responded to culture war issues and pressure from powerful political actors. It recounts how in Florida the COVID-19 pandemic...

...Darko Suvin How do dominant epistemological frames create political understanding and violence in the public sphere and through cultural texts? This article explores a theoretical answer to this question by identifying narrative categories, or frames, that create shared realities and collective...

... of these. In the words of Karen Barad, this turn inquired as to why meaning, history, and truth are assigned to language only, whereas the movements of materiality are given less prominence: “How did language come to be more trustworthy than matter? Why are language and culture granted their own agency and historicity...

... and culturally in the Chinese context. And large-scale translation in the 1920s and 1930s played an important role in constructing the modern Chinese literary canon. This literary and cultural translation has also led to serious debate among China’s intellectuals. The great achievements in modern Chinese...