Title After Marx : literature, theory and value in the twenty-first century / edited by Colleen Lye, Christopher Nealon

Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 259 pages) Series After series After series (Cambridge University Press) Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Marxist Literary Study and the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation -- Periodizing Marxist Literary Study -- Reading Capital in the Post-2008 English Department -- After Marx: An Overview -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 1 Black Marxism and the Antinomies of Racial Capitalism -- References -- Chapter 2 Eco-Criticism and Primitive Accumulation in Indigenous Studies -- Primitive Accumulation and Wastelanding -- Zones of Racial Abstraction -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 Screening Insurrection: Marx, Cinema, Revolution -- Industry to Insurrection -- Nothing to Lose -- References -- Chapter 4 Marxist Ecology and Shakespeare -- A Preponderance of Wood -- Common: ''Historical'' and ''Natural'' -- (De)Personification: ''Wood'' Wept? -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 There Is No ''More Commodification'': Periodizing Capitalist Transformation -- Introduction -- Marx before Commodification -- Marxism after Commodification -- Conclusion: There is No ''More Commodification'' -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6 The Irreconcilable: Marx after Literature -- References -- Chapter 7 The Rise and Fall of the English-Language Literary Novel since World War II -- Aspects of Expansion -- Aspects of Decline -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8 Literature and the State -- References -- Chapter 9 Post-Soviet Aesthetics -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10 Lu Xun's Literary Revolution in Chinese Marxism -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 11 Latin American Literature and Dependency Theory Today -- ''More-Than-National'': Roberto Schwarz and Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Realism -- Periodizing the ''Boom'' -- The New Ring of the Spiral: Neoliberalism and Noir -- References Chapter 12 Industry Culture: Labor and Technology in Marxist Critical Theory -- Automatons and Mechanical Turks -- Industrialization I: Industry and the Culture Industry -- Industrialization II: Mechanization, Hegemony, Consciousness -- Deindustrialization I: Automation, Mass Unemployment, and Marxist Humanism -- Deindustrialization II: The Social Factory and ''Immaterial Labor'' -- Automation and Amazon's Mechanical Turk -- References -- Chapter 13 In Service to Capital: Theater and Marxist Cultural Theory -- The Political Relation -- The Economic Relation -- Theater and Deindustrialization -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 14 Hidden Abodes and Inner Bonds: Literary Study and Marxist-Feminism -- Hidden Abode and Inner Bond -- ''You Say Wife'' -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 15 Poetry and Revolution -- References -- Index Summary "After Marx: Literature, Theory and Value demonstrates the importance of Marxist literary and cultural criticism for an era of intersectional politics and economic decline. The volume includes fresh approaches to reading poetry, fiction, film and drama, from Shakespeare to contemporary literature, and shows how Marxist literary criticism improves our understanding of racial capitalism, feminist politics, colonialism, deindustrialization, high-tech labor, ecological crisis, and other issues. A key innovation of the volume's essays is how they attend to Marx's theory of value. For Marx, capitalist value demands a range of different kinds of labor as well as unemployment. This book shows the importance of Marxist approaches to literature that reach beyond simply demonstrating the revolutionary potential or the political consciousness of a 19th-century-style industrial working class. After Marx makes an argument for the twenty-first century interconnectedness of widely different literary genres, and far-flung political struggles"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge University Press, viewed March 13, 2022) Subject Marxist criticism. Communism and literature. Communism and literature. Marxist criticism. Form Electronic book Author Lye, Colleen, 1967- editor. Nealon, Christopher S. (Christopher Shaun), 1967- editor. LC no. 2021035068 ISBN 9781108776523 1108776523

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