• Cultural Studies

    Author: K Sripad Bhat

    Cultural studies is a unique discipline as it occupies a strategic location intersecting humanities and social sciences. It has emerged as one of the most seminal intellectual discourses of our times. This book provides an accessible and authoritative guide to the theory and practice of cultural studies.

    Prof K Sripad Bhat offers a comprehensive account of the trajectory and growth of cultural studies as a discipline since the 1960s. It introduces the reader to various models of cultural studies prevalent across the globe today.
    This book examines how cultural studies emerged by contesting the basic theoretical principles of conventional literary studies and created a niche for itself among the human sciences. It also analyzes at length, certain core areas and concepts associated with cultural studies like popular culture, multiculturalism, identity politics, race, gender, ideology, hegemony, and so on.

    What sets this book apart is the ‘Postscript’, which traces the historical significance and semantic metamorphosis of Samskrithi into culture in the early decades of the twentieth century, contextualizing cultural studies in India.

    Interested overseas customers may write to us at mup@manipal.edu about purchasing the book.

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