Resistance to Theory
American Studies and the Challenge of Cultural Studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Randolph Lewis (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 1-36 |
| Publication date | 1998-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-028-02-01 |
| OpenAlex | W2032326291 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
In 1990, George Lipsitz issued an eloquent challenge to American studies scholars. Diagnosing the latest in the never-ending series of crises confronting the field, Lipsitz announced that American studies was in a "period of creative ferment and critical fragmentation."1 In this state of flux, Lipsitz identified an important opportunity: American studies scholars could revamp their approach to culture and bring "theory" into a discipline long noted for its resistance to European intellectual imports more recent than de Tocqueville. With a note of optimism, Lipsitz predicted that the early 1990s would offer an "opportunity to reconnect with some of the important aims and intentions of our field in new and exciting ways." In essence, he was calling for American studies to overcome its ongoing resistance to theory, which was preventing the field from engaging broader issues in the manner of the more theoretically driven cultural studies (Lipsitz 1990a, 615)
Biology · Field (mathematics · Optimism · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Academic Freedom and Politics · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology
American Renaissance
Crusoe's Footprints
The Cultural Studies Reader
Blackface, White Noise
Cultures of United States imperialism
Reading the Romance
Regeneration through violence
Time Passages
The Social Construction of Reality
American Studies. Toward and beyond an Antihumanist Method
V. L. Parrington
Cultural Studies and beyond
"A Reply to Steven Watts's "Idiocy
The New American Studies
What Work is there for us to do? American Literary Studies or American Cultural Studies
Creating American Civilization
Reply to the Critics
Resurrecting the Fathers
Postcolonialism, Politics of Gender, and American Studies
Evolving Approaches to U.S. Culture in the American Studies Movement
Dis-Assembling the Machine in the Garden
Resituating American Studies in a Critical Internationalism
The Radical Roots of American Studies
American Studies
The Special American Conditions
"The Problem of an American Studies "Philosophy
Listening to Learn and Learning to Listen
The Idiocy of American Studies
The Politics of American Studies
Loose Change
Postmodernity, or, the Worlding of America
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |