Reading Culture by Pramod K Nayar
Examines the theory, methods and politics of culture studies, which is concerned with the ways in which public culture reflects the relations between identities, race, gender and class. This book demonstrates how a cultural form effectively disseminates meanings by marginalizing certain identities, norms, modes of thinking and knowledges.
"In this comprehensive introduction to cultural studies- unique in that it does not come from a eurocentric perspective- Nayar covers the morality of national identity and gender relations implicit in cinema, the class-consciousness of comic books, the "high culture" preserved within museum cabinets and the transitory but pervasive and traditional mores represented in literature designed to entice tourists to an exciting but perfectly safe and comfortable India"
Pramod K Nayar teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad, India. His work in postcolonial studies includes English Writing and India, 1600–1920:Colonizing Aesthetics (2008), Postcolonial Literature: An Introduction (2008), The Great Uprising: India, 1857 (2007), The Trial of Bahadur Shah Zafar (2007) and The Penguin 1857 Reader (2007). His interests in cultural studies include superheroes, consumer culture, ‘cool’, posthumanism and new media cultures, and his work here includes An Introduction to Cultural Studies (2008), Reading Culture: Theory, Praxis, Politics (2006), Virtual Worlds: Culture and Politics in the Age of Cybertechnology (2004), and a book on literary and cultural theory (Literary Theory Today, 2002), besides numerous essays on cyberculture and, more recently, on human rights narratives. Among forthcoming books are a study of new media and cyberculture, postcolonialism, a history of the Raj and an edited collection on English life in India.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780761934745 |
| ISBN 10 | 076193474X |
| Title | Reading Culture |
| Author | Pramod K Nayar |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc |
| Year published | 2006-06-08 |
| Number of pages | 244 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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