Reading Culture: Theory, Praxis, Politics

This book analyses how forms of public culture in India - cinema, the comic book, the museum and the tourist brochure - generate social meanings. Using a range of theories and approaches, the author aims to demonstrate how a cultural form or genre encodes narratives of power, and works to marginalise certain identities, norms, modes of thinking and knowledge while valorising others. Using jargon-free language, this examination of the poetics and politics of representation, of the relations between cultural forms and power, aims to serve as a comprehensive introduction to the practice of cultural studies.

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