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Marxism, Postcolonial Theory, and the Future of Critique - Critical Engagements with Benita Parry (Paperback)
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Marxism, Postcolonial Theory, and the Future of Critique - Critical Engagements with Benita Parry (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
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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.
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