![]() ![]() It is clear that a Culture Wars frame explains a number of things about speeches like Radway’s 1998 address, or about exchanges like this mesmerizing melee between Frederick Crews and Donald Pease in, respectively, the New York Review of Books and boundary 2over the spate of revisionist works about the American Renaissance published in the 1980s. ![]() In her presidential address, titled “ What’s in a Name?” she asked the most direct and potentially destabilizing question a scholar in her position could ask: does what we do, and what we want to do, correspond with the name under which we are doing it?īecause of the radicalness of that question, many observers heard Radway asking not, “Are we studying US culture and society? Or is there something larger, more sinuous, less centripetal that we have in common?” but rather, “How soon can we dump the old-fashioned, celebratory, proudly exceptionalist work that founded the field? When can we wash our hands of our elders?” From 1998-1999, Janice Radway served as the president of the American Studies Association. ![]()
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