Disciplinarity and Dissent in Cultural Studies

Cultural studies by virtue of their controversial political edge come under attack from both academia and conservative commentators. The 18 papers collected in this volume address criticisms head on (are we relevant?) and also slantly with the weapons of their own studies, resulting in an interesting introduction to the field which essays provocative topics such as the discursive construction of Native American culture, the symbolic struggles of condom use and AIDS, an analysis of conflicts over immigration and identity, the complexities of public African American intellectual life, and the displacements of homophobia in the US. Includes photographs. Lacks an index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Cary Nelson is Professor of English and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His books include such co-edited collections as Cultural Studies, Higher Education Under Fire and Madrid, 1937, all published by Routledge. DILIP PARAMESHWAR GAONKAR is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University.