Bringing It All Back Home

Essays on Cultural Studies

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by Lawrence Grossberg

Duke University Press

Due/Published June 1997, 456 pages, paper

ISBN 0822319160

Grossberg, an early participant in the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies project, is one of the founding figures in cultural studies. These essays, written over a 20 year period, bring a sense of history, depth, and contestation to the success of cultural studies. Charting Grossberg's intellectual and theoretical developments from the days in Birmingham to the present, Bringing It All Back Home reflects his ongoing effort to find a way of theorizing politics and politicizing theory. The breadth of cultural studies, the extent of its diversity, its perspectives and practices, its relation to communication studies, and its origins in leftist politics, are all discussed. Grossberg also challenges some of cultural studies' current directions and prooccupation and indicates what may lie ahead for this dynamic field of study.