Cultural Studies emerged from a literary rather than economic tradition

Evidence

But Cultural Studies didn’t come from that. I was involved in Cultural Studies before it had a name. You see, because of what I’d been interested in and debating about before in relation to that first generation of West Indian intellectuals who were my reference point when I went to England, there is one difference between me and them, and that is that I am not an economist. They are all economists. I am a student of literature. So I was always more interested in cultural questions. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 956

Categorization

• XREF: Positions Cultural Studies as the discipline that attends to culture as a site of politics — a foundational premise the Islamophobia field inherits; links to Hall’s representation theory. — connects to: Materialist literary history argues basic economic structures appear in literature — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 497; Lowenthal treated literature as a passive reflection of economic development — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 498