Bücher der Reihe Routledge Library Editions: Cultural Studies

A variety of theoretical approaches to the study of culture have emphasised the significance of the creation, maintenance, and the transgression of boundaries to identities ΓÇô be they social, cultural, national or personal. The essays collected in this book, first published in 1997, explore the creation of identities in American culture through analysis of the boundaries within and across which American identity is negotiated. The dissemination of cultural identity and the creation of national identity through this process has had a crucial impact on the shape of social life in post-war American culture. The contributors to this volume offer a variety of perspectives on this richly complicated process.

This anthology on otherness and the media, first published in 1993, was prompted by the proliferation of writings centring on issues of ΓÇÿdifferenceΓÇÖ, ΓÇÿdiversityΓÇÖ, ΓÇÿmulticulturalismΓÇÖ, ΓÇÿrepresentationΓÇÖ and ΓÇÿpostcolonialΓÇÖ discourses. Such issues and discourses question existing canons of criticism, theory and cultural practice but also because they suggest a new sense of direction in theorisation of difference and representation.

This book, first published in 1992, challenges the elitism and cultural pessimism of much Anglo-American and Continental cultural debate with regard to the role and power of transnational media practices. In a series of ten innovative essays, an international group of media researchers explores a wide range of cultural practices across national borders and the cultural politics associated with these everyday practices and debates.