Marxism and Cultural Studies

Janice Radway, Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature (1984), 1-118
Term paper, stage five: First draft due

de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, 131-203

Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life (1984), xi-xxiv, 1-130
Brief essay due

This is the last stage of the term paper process prior to drafting the paper itself. At this point, you should turn in a bibliography of at least seven non-class texts and two class texts that you expect to use in your. These texts must be annotated more substantively than they were in the preliminary bibliography. Make use of these annotations to think seriously about how these texts connect to your argument, and how you’ll use them in your paper.

Dick Hebdige, Subculture (1979)
Term paper, stage four: Annotated bibliography due

Said, Culture and Imperialism, 191-336

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

For this stage of the term paper assignment, you should turn in a revised project proposal, which should be approximately 2 pages, double-spaced, this time with a full statement of what you intend to accomplish in your paper, including (and this is the most important part) a clear sense of what your thesis will be. This is not to say, again, that things won’t change as you continue working, but it is to say that I want a very clear sense of the direction you’re heading.

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