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!rurther Reading The literature of cultural studies is notorious for being voluminous, impenetrable and trite. But there are important and good books out there. Here is a brief guide for the discerning. Some of the general readers on cultural studies are surprisingly good, if a bit bulky. The best is Cultural Studies edited by Lawrence Grossberg , Cary Nelson and Paula Treicher (Routledge , London 1992). There is no real substitute for reading the British "founding fathers" : Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy (Penguin, London 1958); Raymond Williams, Culture and Society 1780-1950 (Penguin, London 1966, first published 1958); and the groundbreaking E.P . Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (Penguin , London 1978, first published 1963). Students and friends of Stuart Hall (Routledge, London 1996) provide a highly abstract introduction to his thought and life in the guise of "critical dialogues in cultural studies". Graeme Turner provides an excellent introduction to British Cultural Studies (Routledge, London 1990). Jill Forbes and Michael Kelly give an enthralling tour of French Cultural Studies (Oxford University Press, Oxford 1995). A worthy discussion of issues in Canadian cultural studies can be found in Relocating Cultural Studies , edited by Valda Blundell, John Shepherd and Ian Taylor (Routledge, London 1993). What is Cultural Studies?, edited by John Storey, (Edward Arnold , London 1996) contains some good papers on American and Australian cultural studies. For those who want to know more about Louis Althusser, try Reading Capital (New Left Books, London 1970), or the more accessible For Marx (Penguin University Books, London 1969 or Vintage Books, New York 1970). James Joli gives a good short account of Antonio Gramsci in Gramsci (Fontana Modern Masters , London 1977); but you should try Gramsci himself, in Selections from the Prison Notebooks (Lawrence & Wishart, London 1971 ). The dazzling brilliance of Ashis Nandy can be sampled in The Intimate Enemy (Oxford University Press, Delhi 1983); A Secret History of Our Desires (Zed, London 1997) entertainingly examines the influence of Indian cinema both in India and on the Asian community in Britain . Vinay Lal's South Asian Cultural Studies (Manohar, Delhi 1996) provides a bibliographical map of the thriving cultural studies industry in the Subcontinent. An insightful discussion of post-colonialism can be found in Robert Young's White Mythologies (Routledge, London 1990). The Post-Colonial Reader, edited by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin (Routledge , London 1995) provides key writings of influential figures in one (very large) volume. If you haven't read Edward Said's Orientalism (Routledge , London 1978) where have you been? It should , however, be read in conjunction with Aijaz Ahmad's penetrating critique , In Theory (Verso, London 1992) and Sara Suleri's The Rhetoric of English India (University of Chicago Press, 1992). Sandra Harding's anthology, The Racial Economy of Science (Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1993), is essential reading for understanding how science shapes attitudes, culture and economy. Michael Adas' Machines as the Measure of Men (Cornell University Press, London 1989) gives a penetrating insight into 172
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"science, technology and the ideologies of dominance". In Science (Open University, Milton Keynes 1997) Steve Fuller shows what science may look like to a Martian anthropologist. A good overview of the cultural studies of technology is found in Techno-Science and Cyber-Culture, edited by Stanley Aronowitz, Barbara Matinson and Michael Menser (Routledge, London 1996). Ziauddin Sardar and Jerome Ravetz provide an accessible introduction to the cultural politics of Cyberfutures (Pluto Press, London 1996). But there are no substitutes for Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs and Women (Free Association Books, London 1991 ). Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Figures in Black (Oxford University Press, Oxford 1987) takes issue with the notion of black literature as social realism. Black Literature and Literary Theory, edited by Gates (Routledge, London 1994) contains several noteworthy attempts to delineate the boundaries of black criticism . Beyond Eurocentrism and Multiculturalism , 2 volumes, (Common Courage Press, Monroe, Maine 1993) brings together the best of Cornel West. The best essays of bell hooks are collected in Yearnings: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics (South End Press, Boston, Mass. 1990). The Identity in Question, edited by John Rajchman (Routledge, London 1995) leads an informed expedition through the thorny issues of selfhood. Racism, Modernity and Identity, edited by Ali Rattansi and Sally Westwood (Polity Press, Oxford 1994) is an engaging anthology. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Epistemology of the Closet (Penguin, Harmondsworth 1990) is a landmark introduction to Queer theory. Queer Theory/Sociology, edited by Steven Seidman (Blackwell, Oxford 1996) contains some illuminating papers on the construction of homosexual identity. Avtar Brah's Cartographies of Diaspora (Routledge, London 1996), Raymond Chow's Writing Diaspora (Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1993) and Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic (Verso, London 1993) provide excellent insights into Asian, Chinese and Black diasporas in the West. Glenn Jordan and Chris Weedon's Cultural Politics (Blackwell, Oxford 1995) gives a comprehensive account of "class, gender, race and the postmodern world". Feminine Sentences by Janet Wolff (Polity Press, Oxford 1990) contains some penetrating words on women and culture. Getting the Message: News, Truth and Power, edited by John Eldridge (Routledge. London 1993) summarizes decades of research by the Glasgow University Media Group. The Media Reader, edited by Manuel Alvarado and John Thompson (BFI, London 1990) provides a sensual tour of the pleasures and expectations of films and television. Malcolm Waters makes Globalisation (Routledge, London 1995) relatively palatable. John Tomlinson gives a very clear account of Cultural Imperialism (Pinter, London 1991). And Ziauddin Sardar's Postmodernism and the Other (Pluto, London 1997) tackles "lhe new imperialism of Western culture". Anwar Ibrahim , The Asian Renaissance (Times Books, Kuala Lumpur 1996) provides a perspective from a different culture . 173

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The literature of cultural studies is notorious for being voluminous, impenetrable and trite. But there are important and good books out there. Here is a brief guide for the discerning. Some of the general readers on cultural studies are surprisingly good, if a bit bulky. The best is Cultural Studies edited by Lawrence Grossberg , Cary Nelson and Paula Treicher (Routledge , London 1992). There is no real substitute for reading the British "founding fathers" : Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy (Penguin, London 1958); Raymond Williams, Culture and Society 1780-1950 (Penguin, London 1966, first published 1958); and the groundbreaking E.P . Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (Penguin , London 1978, first published 1963). Students and friends of Stuart Hall (Routledge, London 1996) provide a highly abstract introduction to his thought and life in the guise of "critical dialogues in cultural studies". Graeme Turner provides an excellent introduction to British Cultural Studies (Routledge, London 1990). Jill Forbes and Michael Kelly give an enthralling tour of French Cultural Studies (Oxford University Press, Oxford 1995). A worthy discussion of issues in Canadian cultural studies can be found in Relocating Cultural Studies , edited by Valda Blundell, John Shepherd and Ian Taylor (Routledge, London 1993). What is Cultural Studies?, edited by John Storey, (Edward Arnold , London 1996) contains some good papers on American and Australian cultural studies. For those who want to know more about Louis Althusser, try Reading Capital (New Left Books, London 1970), or the more accessible For Marx (Penguin University Books, London 1969 or Vintage Books, New York 1970). James Joli gives a good short account of Antonio Gramsci in Gramsci (Fontana Modern Masters , London 1977); but you should try Gramsci himself, in Selections from the Prison Notebooks (Lawrence & Wishart, London 1971 ). The dazzling brilliance of Ashis Nandy can be sampled in The Intimate Enemy (Oxford University Press, Delhi 1983); A Secret History of Our Desires (Zed, London 1997) entertainingly examines the influence of Indian cinema both in India and on the Asian community in Britain . Vinay Lal's South Asian Cultural Studies (Manohar, Delhi 1996) provides a bibliographical map of the thriving cultural studies industry in the Subcontinent. An insightful discussion of post-colonialism can be found in Robert Young's White Mythologies (Routledge, London 1990). The Post-Colonial Reader, edited by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin (Routledge , London 1995) provides key writings of influential figures in one (very large) volume. If you haven't read Edward Said's Orientalism (Routledge , London 1978) where have you been? It should , however, be read in conjunction with Aijaz Ahmad's penetrating critique , In Theory (Verso, London 1992) and Sara Suleri's The Rhetoric of English India (University of Chicago Press, 1992). Sandra Harding's anthology, The Racial Economy of Science (Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1993), is essential reading for understanding how science shapes attitudes, culture and economy. Michael Adas' Machines as the Measure of Men (Cornell University Press, London 1989) gives a penetrating insight into

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