Cultural Studies: Interdisciplinarity and Translation, Volume 20
Stefan Herbrechter
Jan 2002 · Rodopi
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This volume claims that interdisciplinarity and translation constitute the two main 'challenges' for cultural studies today. These conceptual issues ('inter' and 'trans') express themselves within specific historical and 'cultural' contexts. Interdisciplinarity is linked with the ongoing process of the institutionalisation of cultural studies in national academies, but also increasingly internationally, comparatively and to a certain extent even globally (cf. cultural studies of 'global culture'). Translation concerns cultural studies both as an object or product and as a subject or producer of translation processes. Cultural studies is the result of translation, translates and is being translated. The essays in this volume therefore relate these various ongoing cultural, linguistic and institutional translation processes to political and ethical issues of internationalisation and globalisation. The contributions draw their originality and strength from strategically crossing, disciplinary and national boundaries. They deliberately ignore the question of what may be 'proper' (to) cultural studies, and instead problematise the notions of 'propriety' and 'belonging'. As a 'reading practice' cultural studies, in these pages, is performed through adaptations and combinations of theory and critical practice. The volume should be of interest to everyone concerned with cultural studies' role in promoting intellectual debate within an increasingly international and 'globalised' public sphere.
About the author
Stefan Herbrechter is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Analysis at Trinity and All Saints, College of the University of Leeds. He holds an MA in English and Romance Philologies from the University of Heidelberg (Germany), and a PhD from Cardiff University (Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory). He is the author of Lawrence Durrell, Postmodernism and the Ethics of Alterity. He has also published on a variety of issues in literature, cultural theory and cultural studies and is currently preparing volumes on Post-Theory, Posthumanism, Strangers and Strangeness in Literature, Theory and Culture, and European Cultural Studies.
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