This volume brings together original work from internationally recognized scholars that critically engages with the full range of Jameson's work, including: Sartre, Lukács, 'Third World' literature, architecture, postmodernity, globalization, film, dialectics and Brecht. In a series of lively, and at times iconoclastic readings, the contributors challenge accepted views of Jameson's work and locate his project in the historical, political and institutional context that shaped it. The volume concludes with an original contribution by Jameson himself, providing an opportunity for readers to critically engage with his work themselves.…mehr
This volume brings together original work from internationally recognized scholars that critically engages with the full range of Jameson's work, including: Sartre, Lukács, 'Third World' literature, architecture, postmodernity, globalization, film, dialectics and Brecht. In a series of lively, and at times iconoclastic readings, the contributors challenge accepted views of Jameson's work and locate his project in the historical, political and institutional context that shaped it. The volume concludes with an original contribution by Jameson himself, providing an opportunity for readers to critically engage with his work themselves.
CLINT BURNHAM University of British Columbia, and Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Canada MARIA ELISA CEVASCO Professor of English and American Literatures, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil MICHAEL CHANAN Professor of Cultural Studies, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK CHRISTIAN A. GREGORY Teaches at Auburn University, USA NEIL LAZARUS Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK ESTHER LESLIE Lecturer in English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK JOHN O'KANE Teaches Theory, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of South Carolina, USA CHRIS PAWLING Honorary Visiting Research Fellow, Sheffield Hallam University, UK XUDONG ZHANG is Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University SLAVOJ ZIZEK Senior Researcher, Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction Sartrean Origins; S.Homer The American Lukács? Fredric Jameson and Dialectical Thought; C.Pawling Fredric Jameson on 'Third-World Literature': A Qualified Defence; N.Lazarus Postmodernism is the Theory, Gentrification is the Practice: Jameson, Haraldsson, Architecture and Vancouver; C.Burnham Stranded Economies; C.A.Gregory The Political Unconscious of Globalization: Notes from the Periphery; M.E.Cevasco Jameson as a Theorist of Revolutionary Philately; S.Zizek Talking Film with Fredric Jameson; M.Chanan Postmodern Negative Dialectics; J.O'Kane Modernity as Cultural Politics: Jameson in China; X.Zhang Jameson, Brecht, Lenin and Spectral Possibilities; E.Leslie Dekalog as Decameron ; F.Jameson Bibliography Index
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction Sartrean Origins; S.Homer The American Lukács? Fredric Jameson and Dialectical Thought; C.Pawling Fredric Jameson on 'Third-World Literature': A Qualified Defence; N.Lazarus Postmodernism is the Theory, Gentrification is the Practice: Jameson, Haraldsson, Architecture and Vancouver; C.Burnham Stranded Economies; C.A.Gregory The Political Unconscious of Globalization: Notes from the Periphery; M.E.Cevasco Jameson as a Theorist of Revolutionary Philately; S.Zizek Talking Film with Fredric Jameson; M.Chanan Postmodern Negative Dialectics; J.O'Kane Modernity as Cultural Politics: Jameson in China; X.Zhang Jameson, Brecht, Lenin and Spectral Possibilities; E.Leslie Dekalog as Decameron ; F.Jameson Bibliography Index
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