Can transnationalism be separated from capitalist globalization? Can an artist create cultural space and rethink the nation state simultaneously? In Imaginary States, Peter Hitchcock explores such questions to invigorate the analysis of cultural transnationalism. Juxtaposing the macroeconomic realities of commodities with the creation of cultural workers, Hitchcock offers case studies of Nike and the coffee industry alongside examinations of writings by the Algerian feminist Assia Djebar and the Caribbean writers Edward Glissant, Kamau Brathwaite, and Maryse Conde. The stark contrast of...
Can transnationalism be separated from capitalist globalization? Can an artist create cultural space and rethink the nation state simultaneously? In I...
Dialogics of the Oppressed was first published in 1992. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
Formulated within and against the context of Russian formalism that became the backbone of semiotics, Mikhail Bakhtin's work has enabled contemporary critical theories to return to specific sociopolitical and historical moments that had been closed off by formalist abstractions. In Dialogics of the Oppressed, Peter Hitchcock looks...
Dialogics of the Oppressed was first published in 1992. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books o...
What keeps materialism moving? At a moment of crisis in materialism, in the wake of materialist practice once known as socialist revolution, this bold and innovative book presents oscillation as a metaphor for understanding materialism anew. Mindful of the dangers for materialism, Peter Hitchcock nevertheless shows how oscillation is part of the conceptual framework of materialist inquiry from Marx to the present.
A reply to the call to rethink the material constraints on materialism itself, this book uses oscillation to refer simultaneously to movement within and between bodies of theory,...
What keeps materialism moving? At a moment of crisis in materialism, in the wake of materialist practice once known as socialist revolution, this bold...
Offering research on Mikhail Bakhtin by leading scholars, this volume both celebrates the centennial of Bakhtin's birth and elaborates significant strains in Bakhtin thinking. The distinction between Bakhtin and Bakhtin is a measure of incommensurable space between the biographically verifiable figure and the one who emerges from contemporary critical applications of his work. The implications for a politics of culture where theory is concerned is discussed and questions are addressed, such as can there be a real Bakhtin, and can this one simply be the relevant Bakhtin? Is the deified Bakhtin...
Offering research on Mikhail Bakhtin by leading scholars, this volume both celebrates the centennial of Bakhtin's birth and elaborates significant str...
What are the theoretical parameters that produce the category public intellectual? With essays from a range of humanities scholars, this collection responds to this question, complicating the notion of the public intellectual while arguing for its continued urgency in communities formal and informal, institutional and abstract.
What are the theoretical parameters that produce the category public intellectual? With essays from a range of humanities scholars, this collection...
