英语系书单 Part II ：(1) Cultural Studies & Postcolonial Studies&Marxist Theory

CULTURAL STUDIES

1. Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, “The Culture Industry”
2. Guy De Bord, Society of the Spectacle
3. Richard Hoggart,The Uses of Literacy
4. Raymond Williams,Culture and Society 1780-1950
5. Paul Willis, Learning to Labor: How Working-Class Kids Get Working-Class Jobs
6. Pierre Bourdieu,Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste
7. Stuart Hall. “Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms” AND “Notes on Deconstructing “The Popular”
8. Dick Hebdige,Subculture: The Meaning of Style
9. Ien Ang,Watching Dallas: Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imagination
10. Michel de Certeau,The Practice of Everyday Life
11. Angie McRobbie,Feminism and Youth Culture
12. Peter Stallybrass and Allon White,The Politics and Poetics of Transgression
13. Michael Denning,Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture
14. Janice Radway,Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy and Popular LiteratureORA Feeling for Books: The Book of the Month Club, Literary Taste and Middle-Class Desire
15. Andrew Ross,No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture
16. Meaghan Morris, “Banality in Cultural Studies”
17. Henry Jenkins: Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture
18. Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson and Paula Treichler,Cultural Studies
19. Paul Gilroy,The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness
20. Jackie Stacey,Stargazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship
21. Kobena Mercer,Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies
22. John Frow,Cultural Studies and Cultural Value
23. Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism
24. Sianne Ngai, Our Aesthetic Categories

POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES

Updated 2/2018

1. Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth or A Dying Colonialism
2. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Decolonising the Mind
3. Ranajit Guha and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, eds., Selected Subaltern Studies (at least 5 essays)
4. Ashis Nandy, The Intimate Enemy
5. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin, The Empire Writes Back
6. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities
7. Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic
8. Partha Chatterjee, The Nation and Its Fragments
9. Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture
10. Edward Said, Orientalism
11. Francis Barker, Peter Hulme, and Margaret Iverson, eds., Colonial Discourse/Postcolonial Theory
12. Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather
13. Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large
14. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason
15. Aihwa Ong, Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality
16. Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe
17. Robert J. C. Young, Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction
18. Achille Mbembe, On the Postcolony
19. Bernard, Anna and Ziad Elmarsafy. What Postcolonial Theory Doesn’t Say. Routledge, 2015.
20. Britton, Celia. Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance. University of Virginia Press, 1999.
21. Carroll, Patricia King, ed. Ireland and Postcolonial Theory. University of Notre Dame Press, 2003.
22. Chibbler, Vivek. Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital. Verso, 2013.
23. Childs, Peter and Patrick Williams. Introduction to Post-Colonial Theory. Routledge, 2014.
24. Choudhury, Bibhash. Reading Postcolonial Theory: Key texts in context. Routledge, 2016.
25. Chrisman, Laura and Patrick Williams, eds. Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader. Routledge, 2015.
26. Clark, Steven H. Travel Writing and Empire: Postcolonial Theory in Transit. Zed Books, 1999.
27. Gandhi, Leela. Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction. Allen & Unwin, 1998.
28. Go, Julian. Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory. Oxford University Press, 2016
29. Huddart, David. Postcolonial Theory and Autobiography. Routledge, 2008.
30. King, Richard. Orientalism and Religion: Post-Colonial Theory, India and "The Mystic East." Routledge, 2013.
31. Lewis, Reina and Sara Mills, eds. Feminist Postcolonial Theory: A Reader. Routledge, 2013.
32. Seth, Sanjay. Postcolonial Theory and International Relations: A Critical Introduction. Routledge, 2013.
33. Sluyter, Andrew. Colonialism and Landscape: Postcolonial Theory and Applications. Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.

MARXIST THEORY

1. Karl Marx, 1844 Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts
2. Karl Marx, German Ideology (1846)
3. Karl Marx, Capital, selections from volume one (1867)
4. Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917); What Is to Be Done? (1902)
5. Stalin: Marxism and the Problems of Linguistics (1950)
6. Bertolt Brecht, “Organon for the Theater”; Mother Courage; Caucasian Chalk Circle; Threepenny Opera (1928-1943)
7. Horkheimer and Adorno: Dialectics of Enlightenment (1944)
8. Arthur Koestler, The God that Failed (1949)
9. Eric Auerbach, Mimesis (1953)
10. Georg Lukacs, “Narrate or Describe?” and “The Ideology of Modernism”; The Historical Novel, selections (1955)
11. Arnold Hauser, Social History of Art, any volume, preferably volume four (1962)
12. Herbert Marcuse, One Dimensional Man (1964)
13. Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle (1967)
14. Walter Benjamin, Illuminations (1969)
15. Louis Althusser, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatus (1970)
16. Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (1971)
17. Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1972)
18. Alexander Solzyhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, volume one, (1973)
19. Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature (1977)
20. Pierre Macherey, A Theory of Literary Production (1978)
21. Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act (1982)
22. Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus (1987)
23. Terry Eagleton, The Ideology of the Aesthetic (1991)
24. Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literature (1994)
25. Nancy Fraser, “Justice Interruptus”: Critical Reflections on the “Postsocialist Condition” (1997)
26. Carl Freedman, The Incomplete Projects: Marxism, Modernity and the Politics of Culture (2002)
27. Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (2014)
28. Slavok Zizek, Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism (2015)
29. Steven Shaviro, No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism (2015)

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