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Reading Culture analyses how forms of public culture in India—cinema, the comic book, the museum and the tourist brochure—generate social meanings. It ‘reads’ the strategies through which they reflect, reinforce and at times contest existing power relations within society.
Using a range of theories and approaches, Pramod Nayar demonstrates how a cultural form or genre encodes narratives of power, and works to marginalize certain identities, norms, modes of thinking and knowledge while valorizing others.
Using precise jargon-free language, this rigorous examination of the poetics and politics of representation, of the relations between cultural forms and power, serves as a comprehensive introduction to the practice of cultural studies.
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