Objecting to my
>> There I think I must defend my fellow Europeans. Most US cultural theory
>> is derivative of European post-structuralism and phenomenology.
>
>Fredric Jameson, Henry Louis Gates Jr, Judith Butler?
As I read Judith Butler I see her mostly following the post- structuralist critique of the subject, as in 'The Psychic Life of Power, Theories in Subjection'; Fredric Jameson - no disrespect to that considerable author - made his name popularising postmodernism over the Atlantic, his Marxism is borrowed straight from the Belgian Ernest Mandel's 'Late Capitalism'; Henry Louis Gates, I regret I am less familiar with.
-- Jim heartfield