| Description |
1 online resource (307 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures Ser |
|
Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures Ser
|
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Against the Grain: An Introduction to Benita Parry's Intellectual Itinerary; PART I: Aesthetics; 1 Against Modernism; 2 "I remember, I remember so as not to forget!" Orhan Pamuk's Melancholic Agency and the Splenetic Périples of Mediterranean Writing; 3 "Broken Histories": The Tribal and the Modern in Arun Joshi's The Strange Case of Billy Biswas; 4 Peripheral Irrealisms: Water-Spirits, World-Ecology, and Neoliberalism; 5 "Not even a sci-fi writer": Peripheral Genres, the World- System Novel, and Junot Díaz |
|
PART II: Politics6 Towards a Pre-History of National Liberation Struggle; 7 Disaffection, Sedition, and Resistance: Aurobindo Ghose and Revolutionary Thought; 8 Revolutionary Nationalism and Global Horizons: The Ghadar Party on Ireland and China; 9 The Limits of African Nationalism: From Anti-Apartheid Resistance to Postcolonial Critique; 10 Maverick Marxism? Eclipsed Enlightenments, Horizons of Solidarity, and Utopian Realism; PART III: Interlocutions; 11 "It could be otherwise, it should be otherwise": A Conversation with Benita Parry; 12 "Intellectual Life: A Duty to Dissent." |
|
13 Benita Parry's PositionNotes on Contributors; Bibliography of Benita Parry's Works; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Marxist criticism.
|
|
Postcolonialism in literature.
|
|
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Subjects & Themes -- Politics.
|
|
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism & Socialism.
|
|
Benita Parry.
|
|
Capitalist Modernity.
|
|
Colonial Discourse Theory.
|
|
Gayatri Spivak.
|
|
Liberation Theory.
|
|
Literature.
|
|
Marxism.
|
|
Marxist Literary Criticism.
|
|
Materialist.
|
|
Neil Lazarus.
|
|
Peripheral Modernity.
|
|
Postcolonial.
|
|
Postcolonial Literature.
|
|
Postcolonial Theory.
|
|
Research.
|
|
Subalternity.
|
|
World Literature.
|
|
Marxist criticism
|
|
Postcolonialism in literature
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Varma, Rashmi
|
| ISBN |
9781317287803 |
|
1317287800 |
|
9781317287797 |
|
1317287797 |
|
9781315644035 |
|
1315644037 |
|
9781317287780 |
|
1317287789 |
|
