Cultural Studies : Volume 9 Issue 2: Special Issue: Toni Morrison and the Curriculum, Edited by Warren Crichton and Cameron McCarthy

Cultural Studies is an international journal committed to exploring the relationships between cultural practices and everyday life, economic relations, the material world, the State, and historical forces and contexts. BOOK COVER......Page 1 TITLE......Page 2 COPYRIGHT......Page 3 EDITORIAL STATEMENT......Page 4 CONTENTS......Page 7 INTRODUCTION......Page 9 References......Page 12 ARTICLES......Page 14 ‘American Africanisms’......Page 15 Traditional world views......Page 19 The centrality of community......Page 21 The role of African ancestors......Page 24 African American intellectuals and academic questions......Page 26 Conclusion......Page 27 Notes......Page 28 References......Page 30 POSTCOLONIAL AGENCY IN TEACHING TONI MORRISON......Page 31 References......Page 50 THE HYPOCRISY OF COMPLETENESS: TONI MORRISON AND THE CONCEPTION OF THE OTHER......Page 53 Hybridity......Page 54 Postcolonial connections......Page 55 Language, identity, and the hypocrisy of completeness......Page 57 Notes......Page 59 References......Page 60 TONI MORRISON AND THE INDIVISIBILITY OF LANGUAGE......Page 62 References......Page 75 SULA AND THE DISCOURSE OF THE FOLK IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE......Page 76 A digression on Langston Hughes......Page 79 Sula and the folk paradigm of wishfulfillment......Page 86 The folk in-and-of-itself......Page 90 Contradictions in Morrison’s fictional world......Page 94 CONTRADICTORY VISIONS......Page 96 Notes......Page 97 References......Page 98 THE JAZZ AESTHETIC IN THE NOVELS OF TONI MORRISON......Page 100 References......Page 107 CONFRONTING THE ‘MASTER NARRATIVE’: THE PRIVILEGE OF ORALITY IN TONI MORRISON’S......Page 108 Orality and literacy: a brief overview of cultural conflicts......Page 109 Orality and literacy in The Bluest Eye......Page 113 Transforming Morrison’s language issues into teaching issues......Page 120 References......Page 124 ‘Go een a kumbla’......Page 126 A blues book most excellent......Page 128 How do you like your pedagogy?: Blackened!......Page 132 ‘Out of the kumbla’......Page 138 Notes......Page 139 References......Page 144 RE-MEMBERING THE MOTHER TONGUE(S): TONI MORRISON, JULIE DASH AND THE LANGUAGE OF PEDAGOGY......Page 147 Why focus on trauma and terror, and testimony to it?......Page 148 Newly born(e) languages......Page 149 Translating the (body) memory......Page 151 Translating and testifying through literature......Page 153 Giving (and taking) testimony to histories of trauma......Page 156 Crises of reading; crisis in the classroom......Page 157 ‘The maternal metaphor’......Page 159 ‘Oh, Mama’......Page 163 Forgotten languages reborn(e)......Page 164 (Un)common sense in common......Page 167 Is there a teacher in this text?......Page 169 Notes......Page 170 References......Page 172 ‘YOU ARE YOUR OWN BEST THING’: TEACHING TONI MORRISON’S BELOVED USING QUESTION-HYPOTHESIS-QUESTIONS (QHQS)......Page 174 The teacher, the class, and the question-hypothesis-questions (qhqs)......Page 175 Situating Beloved in the class......Page 177 Readings in three sessions......Page 184 Analysis of Trevard’s class......Page 186 Conflictual alliances......Page 188 Notes......Page 189 References......Page 190 REVIEWS......Page 192 ‘DREAMING IDENTITIES’......Page 193 PRODUCING CULTURE: MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN TEXTS......Page 197 NOVEL ADULTERY?......Page 203 References......Page 206 THE NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTION OF AUSTRALIA......Page 207 References......Page 211 COMIC CUTS......Page 212 Notes on Contributors......Page 216 Other journals in the field of cultural studies......Page 217 Cultural Studies and Cultural Value is a major critique of the important new discipline of cultural studies. Cultural studies has generally organized itself around the opposition of high to low culture, reversing the traditional hierarchy of value, but leaving intact the polarity and the direct correlation of culture and class. Through detailed readings of the work of Pierre Bourdieu, Michel de Certeau, Stuart Hall, and Ernesto Laclau, John Frow challenges this key assumption. He argues that the field of culture now has multiple centres and multiple domains of value and that these are irreducible to a single scale. Intellectuals play the crucial role in the mediation of the cultural field, and their possession of cultural capital endows them with specific class interests which are distinct from those of the classes or groups for whom they claim to speak

This acclaimed international journal explores the relationships between cultural practices and everyday life, economic relations, the material world, the State, and historical forces and contexts. Papers featured in this issue include:

The Aboriginal Version of Ken Done: banal aboriginal identites in Australia; Creolite and Francophonie in Music: socio-musical repositioning where it matters; To Serve and Protect: textualizing the Falklands conflict; The Risk of Empathy: interrogating multiculturalism's gaze; Danger in the Safety Zone: notes on race, resentment, and the discourse of crime, violence and suburban society; Building Diaspora and Nation: the 1991 "Cultural Festival of India;" Unpopular Culture: the case of "white trash."

Cultural Studies and Cultural Value seeks a revitalized and 'poststructuralist' account of social class, a basis from which cultural studies can effect a much-needed reorientation First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.