Public Access: Literary Theory and American Cultural Politics

by Michael Bérubé

This text provides an explanation of the political correctness argument: how it emerged and how right-wing pundits have used it to undermine contemporary criticism. In a series of linked essays, Berube examines the current state of cultural studies, the significance of postmodernism, the continuing debate over multicultural curricula and recent revisions of literary history in American studies.

272 pages, Hardcover

First published June 17, 1994

About the author

Michael Bérubé is the director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities and the Paterno Family Professor in Literature at Penn State University.

Reviews

[CharlesS · Rating 5 out of 5]

A magnificent book, although rather dated now, but it responds fully to the debates of the Culture Wars of the early 1990s.