Every Day, Everywhere: Global Perspectives on Popular Culture » (1st Edition)

With a thematic focus on global popular culture, this unique multi-genre reader offers students the opportunity to read, talk, and write about familiar topics of modern life.

Introduction: Analyzing Everyday Life
1. CRITICAL THINKING, READING, AND WRITING

Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking about the World of Texts

Critical Reading

The Process of Reading Actively and Analytically

How to Analyze an Argument

Tools for Critical Reading

Critical Writing

Preliminary Questions about the Rhetorical Situation

The Process of Writing Critically

Working with Sources

Analyzing Visual Texts

Visuals Are Rhetorical

Elements of Design

Multimedia Texts and Hypertext
2. FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Bill Bryson, What’s Cooking: Eating in America

Conrad P. Kottak, Rituals at McDonald’s

Diane Ackerman, The Social Sense

Dinitia Smith, Did a Barnyard Schism Lead to a Religious One

Margaret Visser, Fingers

Guanlong Cao, Chopsticks

Octavio Paz, Hygiene and Repression

Garrett Hongo, Who Among You Knows the Essence of Garlic [Poem]

Slavenka Drakulic, Pizza in Warsaw, Torte in Prague

William Maxwell, The Pilgrimage [Short Story]

3. CROSS (Cultural) DRESSING

Farid Chenoune, Jeans and Black Leather: Gangs Don a Second Skin

Dodie Kazanjian, The Kelly Bag as Icon

Deborah Tannen, There Is No Unmarked Woman

Germaine Greer, One Man’s Mutilation Is Another Man’s Beautification

Bernard Rudofsky, The Unfashionable Human Body

Valerie Steele and John S. Major, China Chic

Alison Lurie, The Language of Clothes

Elizabeth W. Fernea and Robert A. Fernea, A Look Behind the Veil

Liza Dalby, Kimono

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Clothes [Short Story]
4. GENDER (MIS)REPRESENTATION

Brian Pronger, Sexual Mythologies

Richard Majors and Janet Mancini Billson, Cool Pose

Gareth Palmer, Bruce Springsteen and Authentic Masculinity

Anne Taylor Fleming Sperm in a Jar

Susan Bordo, Never Just Pictures

Marge Piercy, Barbie Doll [Poem]

Waris Dirie, The Tragedy of Female Circumcision

Fatima Mernissi, The French Harem

Monique Proulx, Feint of Heart [Short Story]
5. LANGUAGE MATTERS

Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures

Luc Sante, Lingua Franca

Barbara Mellix, From Outside, In

John Agard, Listen mr oxford don [Poem]

Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange [Chapter from novel]

Luis Alberto Urrea, Nobody’s Son

Amy Tan, The Language of Discretion

Kyoko Mori, Polite Lies

Gary Chapman, Flamers: Cranks, Fetishists, and Monomaniacs
6. OTHERNESS

Gina Kolata, A Clone Is Born

Lennard J. Davis, Visualizing the Disabled Body

Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face

Paul Monette, Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir

Bruce Springsteen, Streets of Philadelphia [Song Lyrics]

Constance Classen, The Odour of the Other

Paul Barber, The Real Vampire

Gino Del Guercio, The Secrets of Haiti’s Living Dead

Milorad Pavic, The Wedgwood Tea Set [Short Story]
7. THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT!

Greil Marcus, Dead Elvis

Sandra Tsing Loh, The Return of Doris Day

Neil Postman & Steve Powers, TV News As Entertainment

Charles Oliver, Freak Parade

John Cheever, The Enormous Radio [Short Story]

Jessica Hagedorn, Asian Women in Film: No Joy, No Luck

R. K. Narayan, Misguided ‘Guide’

Jackie Chan, A Dirty Job

Jesse W. Nash, Confucius and the VCR
8. IT’S ALL IN THE GAME

Carl Sagan, Game: The Prehistoric Origin of Sports

Joyce Carol Oates, On Boxing

Clifford Geertz, The Balinese Cockfight

Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, First Pitch

Maya Angelou, Champion of the World

Arthur Ashe, The Burden of Race

Bonnie De Simone, Mia Hamm: Grateful for Her Gifts

Joan Ryan, Little Girls in Pretty Boxes

Lin Sutherland, A River Ran Over Me [Short Story]
9. WORLDLY GOODS

Juliet B. Schor, The Culture of Consumerism

Bill Bryson, The Hard Sell: Advertising in America

Richard Keller Simon, The Shopping Mall and the Formal Garden

Rabbi Susan Schnur, Barbie Does Yom Kippur

Umberto Eco, How Not to Use the Fax Machine and the Cellular Phone

George Carlin, A Place for Your Stuff

Terence McLaughlin, Dirt: A Social History As Seen Through the Uses and Abuses of Dirt

Edward T. Hall, Hidden Culture

Raymonde Carroll, Sex, Money and Success

David R. Counts, Too Many Bananas

Alberto Moravia, Jewellery [Short Story]

Writing Across Themes: Essay Suggestions