Keywords Under Discussion
From Keywords
In addition to the wiki-based Keywords Collaboratory and the website devoted to the edited collection, we also regularly host a discussion forum on the Keywords Blog. On our blog, you’ll find a few complete essays from the volume that you can read and discuss with others, sometimes including the essays’ authors. While collaboration is central to the work we see emerging from Keywords for American Cultural Studies, contestation around those terms is also important for opening up rather than shutting down dialogue about the multiple genealogies and the differing and contradictory uses of those keywords. If there is a particular term you would like to see appear in the blog, please let us know.
Featured Keywords: March 2008
This month, two contributors to Keywords for American Cultural Studies will be speaking at Fordham University. On March 3, Brent Hayes Edwards will be speaking in an event sponsored by the Department of African and African American Studies, the Program in American Studies, and other programs. Later in the month, on March 27, Vijay Prashad will be speaking as part of a series of events related to Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Namesake.
Whether you're attending the talks or not, click to read the full entries online, and then respond to them in the blog.
- Brent Hayes Edwards on Diaspora
- Vijay Prashad on Orientalism
