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

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

Edited By Sharae Deckard, Rashmi Varma Copyright 2019
306 Pages
by Routledge

306 Pages
by Routledge

306 Pages
by Routledge
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Using the aesthetic and political concerns of Parry’s oeuvre as a touchstone, 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 alongside it, new possibilities for left critique. It is the first volume of essays focusing on the field-defining intellectual legacy of the... Read more


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

Biography

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.

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