Keywords Rants and Raves
James Bowman’s review of Keywords for American Cultural Studies published in The Wall Street Journal is sure to provoke some debate among contributors, instructors, and students. Bowman criticizes the collection as an “intellectual house of cards” that has “nothing but contempt for the ‘discourse of expertise,’ i.e., traditional language scholarship.” Keywords-based methodologies within American Cultural Studies are, in Bowman’s words, a “politicization of language.”
Read the review online, and post your responses here.