Marxism and Cultural Studies

Said, Culture and Imperialism, 191-336

Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (1993), xi-xxviii, 3-80

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (1983), 1-65, 141-154, 163-185
Term paper, stage three: Revised project proposal due

Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
Brief essay due

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961)

Raymond Williams, “Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory” (1973)
Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature (1977): section II, “Cultural Theory”
Stuart Hall, “Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms” (1980)
Stuart Hall, “Signification, Representation, Ideology: Althusser and the Post-Structuralist Debates” (1985)

Antonio Gramsci, selections from The Prison Notebooks (1929-35, 1949)
Chantal Mouffe, “Hegemony and Ideology in Gramsci” (1979)
Stuart Hall, “Gramsci’s Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity” (1986)
Term paper, stage two: Preliminary bibliography due

Louis Althusser, “Contradiction and Overdetermination: Notes for an Investigation” (1962)
Louis Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation)” (1969)

Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1939)
Theodore Adorno and Max Horkheimer, “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception” (1944)
Term paper, stage one: Preliminary project proposal due

Karl Marx, Capital, vol. 1 (1867), chapter 1, “Commodities”; chapter 6, “The Buying and Selling of Labour-Power”
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The German Ideology (1845-46), part I, section A, “Idealism and Materialism”
Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852), part III
Karl Marx, preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859)
Brief essay due