Key Contributors
What is Richard Hoggard the key founder of?
Birmingham Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS)?
The Uses of Literacy
Richard Hoggart
What does power refer to?
It is the idea that all things are socially constructed and that power is a central concept in social life. Power can be understood as relations between people with different roles and statuses within society
what are two main cultural elements found in Young Goodman Brown
religious and gothic
What was a significant period of time for the development of African-American culture?
The Harlem Renaissance (1918-1937)
state two words that Raymond Williams suggested to add to the dictionary
bourgeois
culture
isms
status
ecology
liberation.
Culture and Society
Raymond Williams
why is it a necessity to read classics?
it teaches people how "politically correct" cultural concepts have changed over the years
What does UNESCO stand for, and who was an assistant-director general between 1971 and 1975?
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, Richard Hoggart
Why is Traditional Native literature not easily translated to English?
Who was an Assistant Director-General of UNESCO between 1971 and 1975?
Richard Hoggart
The Long Revolution
Raymond Williams
State three limitations to cultural studies
Lack of knowledge (poor research)
Culture wars
Temptations to dismiss popular cultures
Diversity of approach
What was the Raymond Williams Society founded for?
to support and develop intellectual and political projects in various areas
What is one of the primary tropes of Latina/o literature?
The concept of borders between cultures, languages and nations.
In 1960, who did Stuart Hall join to merge with the new reasoner, and launch the new left review?
E. P. Thompson and Raymond Williams
The Making of the English Working Class
E. P. Thompson
What does materialism refer to?
It promotes the idea that infrastructure, consisting of “material realities” such as technological, economic and reproductive (demographic) factors mold and influence the other two aspects of culture.
State four gothic elements found in Young Goodman Brown and explain them briefly (how are they related to the story)
Supernatural activity → teleporting of Brown in the middle of the woods (a dark forest)
Night → unknown atmosphere → is this reality or a bad dream?
Insanity → he was having a crisis of faith
Romance & Lovers-farewell → at the beginning, Faith, Brown’s wife, warns him not to go to the forest at night but instead to stay with her. However, he still decides to go, despite her warning.
Anti-Hero → an unknown guide of Brown who leads him in the forest (Who was this man? Why was he there? etc)
Damsel in Distress → Brown was in distress while in the forest
When did Asian-American culture begin, and what types of texts made up the literature at the time?
At the beginning of the twentieth century, and consisted of mainly autobiographical stories, such as "paper son" and "confessions" stories.
What was E. P. Thompson's most influencial work
The Making of the English Working Class
Past and Present
E. P. Thompson (along with Christopher Hill, Eric Hobsbawm and Rodney Hilton)
what is the problem with culture wars
It had been subject to the criticism of being artificial, imposed, or asymmetric conflicts, rather than a result of authentic differences between cultures.
What did Raymond Williams tutor adult aducation at oxford university for?
Delegacy of Extra-Mural Studies
How does Native American literature differ from Anglo-American literature?
Native American literature is one that is practical and used in everyday life, while Anglo-American literature is usually separated from daily life as a form of leisure.