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Deckard, Sharae and Varma, Rashmi (2018) Marxism, postcolonial theory, and the future of critique. Routledge research in postcolonial literatures (63). New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781138186118
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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 literary scholar Benita Parry. As a leading critic of the post-structuralist turn within postcolonial studies, Parry has not only brought Marxism and postcolonial theory into a productive, albeit tense, dialogue, but has reinvigorated the field by bringing critical questions of resistance and struggle to bear on aesthetic forms. The book’s aim is two-fold: first, to evaluate Parry’s formative influence within postcolonial studies and its interface with Marxist literary criticism, and second, to explore new terrains of scholarship opened up by Parry’s work. It provides a critical overview of Parry’s key interventions, such as her contributions to colonial discourse theory; her debate with Spivak on subaltern consciousness and representation; her critique of post-apartheid reconciliation and neoliberalism in South Africa; her materialist critique of writers such as Kipling, Conrad, and Salih; her work on liberation theory, resistance, and radical agency; as well as more recent work on the aesthetics of "peripheral modernity." The volume contains cutting-edge work on peripheral aesthetics, the world-literary system, critiques of global capitalism and capitalist modernity, and the resurgence of Marxism, communism, and liberation theory by a range of established and new scholars who represent a dissident and new school of thought within postcolonial studies more generally. It concludes with the first-ever detailed interview with Benita Parry about her activism, political commitments, and her life and work as a scholar.
Item Type: | Book | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||||
Series Name: | Routledge research in postcolonial literatures | ||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
Place of Publication: | New York | ||||||
ISBN: | 9781138186118 | ||||||
Official Date: | 22 August 2018 | ||||||
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Number: | 63 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 292 | ||||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
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