This document provides an overview of five types of cultural studies: New Historicism, Postmodernism and Popular Culture, and Postcolonial Studies. It defines each approach and provides some key details about each. New Historicism examines cultural works within their historical context and aims to understand history through literature. Postmodernism departs from modernism in arts and includes concepts like deconstruction. Popular culture refers to everyday cultural phenomena and can be analyzed through production, textual, audience, and historical lenses. Postcolonial studies analyzes the legacies of colonialism and imperialism, referring to the period when former colonies gained independence. It discusses scholars like Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, and Franz Fanon who have contributed to

1. Name: Jinal B. Parmar
Roll No.: 13
Paper No.: 8 – Cultural Studies
M.A. Sem.: 2
Year: 2013-2014
Submitted to: Department of English
Smt. S. B. Gardi
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University
Topic: New Historicism, Post modernism
and popular culture, and Post colonial
studies

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Five types of cultural studies

3.  New Historicism is a school of
literary theory
 First developed in 1980s
 Stephan Greenblatt
 Its aim is to understand the work
through it cultural context and to
understand history through
literature
New Historicism

4.  New Historicism examining the writer’s
time to affection work
 Example of Merchant of Venice always
comes to question of whether the play
shows Shakespeare to be anti-Semitic

5. Postmodernism and Popular Culture
Postmodernism:
 Postmodernism is a late 20th century
movement
 Departure from Modernism
 John Watkins Chapman suggested “a
Postmodern style of Painting”
 Postmodernism had been used to describe
new forms of art and music
 Postmodern music is either music of the
postmodern era
 One of the most well-known postmodernist
concerns is "deconstruction,"
 Major figure of high modernism: Virginia
Woolf, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot,
etc…

6. Popular Culture:
 The term "popular culture" was coined in
the 19th century or earlier
 Popular culture is entirely about ideas,
perspective, attitude, image and other
phenomena
 The abbreviated from “pop” for popular
 Popular culture is connected with our
society and our everyday life

7.  Popular culture has four main types
to analyze:
1. Production analysis
2. Textual analysis
3. Audience analysis
4. historical analysis
 These analyses seek to get beneath
to surface meaning and examine
more implicit social meaning

8.  Post colonial theory is an academic discipline
featuring methods of
intellectual discourse that analyze, explain,
and respond to the cultural legacies
of colonialism and of imperialism
 Post colonialism refers to historical phase
undergone by the the third world century
 Ex. When Countries in Asia, Latin America
and caribbean separated from the European
empire and were left to rebuild themselves
Postcolonial Studies

9. • Edward Said’s concept of concept was an
important touchstone to Post colonial studies
• Imporatant figure in Post colonial feminism is
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, who the effect of
political independence upon “Subaltern” in “Can
the Subaltern Speak?”
• Homi K. Bhabha’s Post colonial theory involves
analysis of nationality, ethnicity, and politics
with poststructuralist ideas
• Franz Fanon in his book “The Wretched of the
Earth” has been an important inspiration for
post colonial culture

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