Limitations of Cultural Studies

Name : Kubavat Kishan

Roll No.: 11

Semester : 2nd

Paper no : 8

PG Enrollment No: 14101021

Paper name : Cultural Studies

Year: 2014-15

Submitted to: Smt. S.B.Gardi

Department of English

M. K. Bhavnagar University

The weakness of cultural studies lie in its very strength

particularly it emphasis upon diversity of approach and

subject matter.

Cultural studies is not a tightly coherent unified movement

with a fixed agenda, but a loosely coherent group of

tendicies,issues and questions

Limitations of Cultural Studies

Lack of adequate knowledge

Difficult to define which is the best

culture

Missing of Reality

Study about what is happening

( popular culture)

Limitations of Cultural Studies

Cultures to be deconstructed

Conspiracy theory

clash of civilization

Some Features which affects to Limitation of Cultural studies

Ideological state apparatus

e.g.-TV Soap Operas, Ads, popular movies

Khans :

e.g.- their movies, marriages with Hindu women,

styamev jayate (all about India’s dark side)

Awards to the books on downside of Indian culture :

e.g.-Adiga’s White Tiger (2008-Man Booker Prize)

Wendy Doniger’s Hindus , etc .

Some Features