After Marx
Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century
Published on 17. March 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-108-70224-9 (ISBN)
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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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
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Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
446 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-70224-9 (9781108702249)
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Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century
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Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century
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Introduction: Marxist literary study and the general law of capitalist accumulation Colleen Lye and Christopher Nealon; 1. Black Marxism and the antinomies of racial capitalism Nikhil Pal Singh; 2. Eco-criticism and primitive accumulation in indigenous studies Iyko Day; 3. Screening insurrection: Marx, cinema, revolution Mark Steven; 4. Marxist ecology and Shakespeare Crystal Bartolovich; 5. There is no 'more commodification': Periodizing capitalist transformation Leigh Claire La Berge; 6. The irreconcilable: Marx after literature Joshua Clover; 7. The rise and fall of the English-language literary novel since World War II Sarah Brouillette; 8. Literature and the state Juliana Spahr; 9. Post-Soviet aesthetics Marijeta Bozovic and Rossen Djagalov; 10. Lu Xun's literary revolution in Chinese Marxism Petrus Liu; 11. Latin American literature and dependency theory today Ericka Beckman; 12. Industry culture: Labor and technology in Marxist critical theory Annie McClanahan; 13. In service to capital: Theater and Marxist cultural theory Michael Shane Boyle; 14. Hidden abodes and inner bonds: Literary study and Marxist-feminism Amy De'Ath; 15. Poetry and revolution Jasper Bernes.