This document outlines and describes 5 types of cultural studies: 1) British Cultural Materialism, which began in the 1950s and was influenced by Matthew Arnold's analysis of bourgeois culture, 2) New Historicism, which examines how literature expresses and sometimes disguises power relations, 3) American Multiculturalism, which includes African American, Latina/o, American Indian, and Asian American writers, 4) Postmodernism and Popular Culture, which analyzes popular culture through production, textual, audience, and historical lenses, and 5) Postcolonial Studies, which refers to the historical phase undergone by third world countries after the decline of colonialism.

1. Department Of English M.K.B.U.
Dave Mayuri P.
Roll no.13 Sem-2
Paper no. 8
-:Topic:-
5 types of cultural studies
Submitted :- Dr. Dilip Barad

2. What is Cultural Studies ?
Cultural Studies is an innovative
interdisciplinary field of research
and teaching that investigate the
ways in which “Culture” creates
and transforms individual
experiences, everyday life social
relations and power.

3. Five types of cultural studies
1. British cultural Materialism.
2. New Historicism.
3. American multiculturalism.
African American writers
Latina /o writers
American Indian Literature
Asian American Writers
4. Postmodernism and popular culture
Postmodernism
Popular culture
5. Postcolonial Studies

4. 1. British Cultural Materialism
Cultural Materialism began in earnest in
the 1950s with the work of F.R.Levis,
heavily influenced by Matthew Arnold’s
analysis of bourgeois culture.
Mathew Arnold sought to redefine the
“givens” of British Culture.
Britain two trajectories for culture
1. Feudal
2. Social utopia

5. 2. New Historicism
New Historicism on the way literature
express and sometimes disguise power
relation at work in the social context in
which the literature was produce often
this involves making connection between
of literary work and other kinds of text.

6. 3. American Multiculturalism
As we discuss above that these
American Multiculturalism have its
different four types like,
1. African American writers.
2. Latina /o writers.
3. American Indian Literature.
4. Asian American writers.

7. 4. Postmodernism and Popular
Culture
 Postmodernism
Postmodernism describe a range of conceptual frameworks
and ideologist that are in opposition to those commonly
attributed to modernism and modernist notions of
knowledge and science as, materialism, realism,
positivism, formalism, structuralism and reductionism.
 Popular Culture
There are four main types of popular culture analysis.
1. Production analysis.
2. Textual analysis.
3. Audience analysis.
4. Historical analysis.

8. 5. Postcolonial Studies
Post colonialism refers to a Historical
phase undergone by third world countries
after the decline of colonialism.
Third world of writers :-
1. Frantz Fanon.
2. Homi k. Bhabha’s.
3. Salman Rushdie.
4. Gaytri Chakravorty Spivak.