Marxism, Postcolonial Theory, and the Future of Critique (eBook, ePUB)

Critical Engagements with Benita Parry
Redaktion: Deckard, Sharae; Varma, Rashmi

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on the intellectual legacy of Benita Parry, this book explores new directions for postcolonial studies, Marxist literary criticism, and world literature in the contemporary moment, seeking to re-imagine the field, and new possibilities for Left critique.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317287797
• Artikelnr.: 54664226

Autorenporträt

Sharae Deckard is Lecturer in World Literature at University College Dublin. She is author of Paradise Discourse, Imperialism and Globalization (Routledge 2010) and co-author with the Warwick Research Collective of Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature (Liverpool UP 2015). She has edited special issues of Ariel, The Journal of World-Systems Research, Green Letters, and The Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Her research centres on world-ecology and world-systems approaches to postcolonial and world literature. Rashmi Varma teaches postcolonial and world literature and transnational feminist theory in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She is the author of The Postcolonial City and Its Subjects (2012) and of the forthcoming Modern Tribal: Representing Indigeneity in Postcolonial India. She is a founding editorial collective member of the journal Feminist Dissent. Most recently, she has co-edited (with Subir Sinha) a symposium on Marxism and postcolonial theory for the journal Critical Sociology.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Foreword
NEIL LAZARUS
Against the Grain: An Introduction to Benita Parry's Intellectual Itinerary
SHARAE DECKARD AND RASHMI VARMA
PART I
Aesthetics
1 Against Modernism
TIMOTHY BRENNAN
2 'I remember, I remember so as not to forget!' Orhan Pamuk's Melancholic
Agency and the Splenetic Périples of Mediterranean Writing
NORBERT BUGEJA
3 'Broken Histories': The Modern and the Tribal in Arun Joshi's The Strange
Case of Billy Biswas
RASHMI VARMA
4 Peripheral Irrealisms: Water-spirits, World-Ecology, and Neoliberalism
MICHAEL NIBLETT
5 "Not Even a Sci-Fi Writer": Peripheral Aesthetics, the World-System
Novel, and Junot Díaz
SHARAE DECKARD
PART II
Politics
6 Towards a Pre-History of National Liberation Struggle
PETER HALLWARD
7 Disaffection, Sedition, and Resistance: Aurobindo Ghose and Revolutionary
Thought
KEYA GANGULY
8 Revolutionary Nationalism and Global Horizons: The Ghadar Party on
Ireland and China
PRANAV JANI
9 The Limits of African Nationalism: From Anti-Apartheid Resistance to
Postcolonial Critique
DAVID JOHNSON
10 Maverick Marxism? Eclipsed Enlightenments, Horizons of Solidarity and
Utopian Realism
CAROLINE ROONEY
PART III
Interlocution
11 "It could be otherwise, it must be otherwise": A Conversation with
Benita Parry
SHARAE DECKARD AND RASHMI VARMA
12 "Intellectual Life: A Duty to Dissent": A Graduation Address at the
University of York, 12 July 2006
BENITA PARRY
13 Benita Parry's Position: Talk given at the Benita Parry Conference at
the University of Warwick, 17 November 2001
TIMOTHY BRENNAN
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography of Benita Parry's Works