Cultural Politics: Class, Gender, Race And The Postmodern World

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Part I: Mapping the Terrain:.

1. Introduction: What are Cultural Politics?.

2. Liberals and Humanists, Cosmopolitans and Eurocentrics: on the Development of Cultural Policy in Britain.

Part II: The Cultural Politics of Class:.

3. Writing as a Weapon in Class Struggle: Radical Cultural Politics in Britain to the Second World War.

4. Marxist Cultural Politics in Eastern Europe: the Case of the German Democratic Republic.

5. Whose History is it? Class, Cultural Democracy and Constructions of the Past.

Part III: The Cultural Politics of Gender:.

6. Feminism and the Cultural Politics of Gender.

7. Alternative Subjectivities: White Feminist Fiction.

8. Gender, Racism and Identity: Black Feminist Fiction.

Part IV: The Cultural Politics of Race:.

9. Marking Difference, Asserting Power: the Cultural Politics of Racism.

10. Primitives, Politics and the Avant-garde.

11. Dialogues: Race and the Cultural Politics of the Avant-garde.

12. Encounters: Postcolonial Artists and the Art Establishment.

13. From Primitivism to Ethnic Art: Neo-colonialism in the Metropolis.

14. Racism, Culture and Subjectivity: Australian Aboriginal Writing.

Part V: Concluding Reflections:.

15. The Postmodernist Challenge/Challenging Postmodernism: a Cultural Politics for Today.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index of Names and Voices.

Subject Index.