1. Name: Jinal B. Parmar
Roll No.: 13
Paper No.: 8 – Cultural Studies
M.A. Sem.: 2
Year: 2013-2014
Submitted to: Department of English
Smt. S. B. Gardi
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University
Topic: New Historicism, Post modernism
and popular culture, and Post colonial
studies

2. British
Culture
Materialism
New
Historicism
American
Multicultural
-ism
Postmoderni
sm and
Pouplar
Culture
Postcolonial
Studies
Five types of cultural studies

3.  New Historicism is a school of
literary theory
 First developed in 1980s
 Stephan Greenblatt
 Its aim is to understand the work
through it cultural context and to
understand history through
literature
New Historicism

4.  New Historicism examining the writer’s
time to affection work
 Example of Merchant of Venice always
comes to question of whether the play
shows Shakespeare to be anti-Semitic

5. Postmodernism and Popular Culture
Postmodernism:
 Postmodernism is a late 20th century
movement
 Departure from Modernism
 John Watkins Chapman suggested “a
Postmodern style of Painting”
 Postmodernism had been used to describe
new forms of art and music
 Postmodern music is either music of the
postmodern era
 One of the most well-known postmodernist
concerns is "deconstruction,"
 Major figure of high modernism: Virginia
Woolf, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot,
etc…

6. Popular Culture:
 The term "popular culture" was coined in
the 19th century or earlier
 Popular culture is entirely about ideas,
perspective, attitude, image and other
phenomena
 The abbreviated from “pop” for popular
 Popular culture is connected with our
society and our everyday life

7.  Popular culture has four main types
to analyze:
1. Production analysis
2. Textual analysis
3. Audience analysis
4. historical analysis
 These analyses seek to get beneath
to surface meaning and examine
more implicit social meaning

8.  Post colonial theory is an academic discipline
featuring methods of
intellectual discourse that analyze, explain,
and respond to the cultural legacies
of colonialism and of imperialism
 Post colonialism refers to historical phase
undergone by the the third world century
 Ex. When Countries in Asia, Latin America
and caribbean separated from the European
empire and were left to rebuild themselves
Postcolonial Studies

9. • Edward Said’s concept of concept was an
important touchstone to Post colonial studies
• Imporatant figure in Post colonial feminism is
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, who the effect of
political independence upon “Subaltern” in “Can
the Subaltern Speak?”
• Homi K. Bhabha’s Post colonial theory involves
analysis of nationality, ethnicity, and politics
with poststructuralist ideas
• Franz Fanon in his book “The Wretched of the
Earth” has been an important inspiration for
post colonial culture

10. Thank You..