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Again, it is not surprising that American cultural studies has
come under severe criticism, both from the British pioneers in
the field and from those - uncharitably described as puritans
- who would like to duplicate the formative history of cultural
studies in other parts of the world. The strongest criticism of
American cultural studies dismisses it as a generalized form
of textual analysis and free-floating theorization.
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