Marxism, Postcolonial Theory, and the Future of Critique: Critical Engagements with Benita Parry

ISBN-13: 9780367665555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 292 str.

Sharae Deckard; Rashmi Varma

Opis

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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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

O autorze

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.