Fredric Jameson: 82 books
Postmodernity in Latin America
The Argentine Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 1994
Postmodernity in Latin America contests the prevailing understanding of the relationship between postmodernity and Latin America by focusing on recent developments in Latin American, and particularly Argentine, political and literary culture. While European and North American theorists of postmodernity...
by Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1989
Postmodernism and Japan is a coherent yet diverse study of the dynamics of postmodernism, as described by Lyotard, Baudrillard, Deleuze, and Guatarri, from the often startling perspective of a society bent on transforming itself into the image of Western “enlightenment” wealth and power. This...
The Death-Bound-Subject
Richard Wright’s Archaeology of Death
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
During the 1940s, in response to the charge that his writing was filled with violence, Richard Wright replied that the manner came from the matter, that the “relationship of the American Negro to the American scene [was] essentially violent,” and that he could deny neither the violence he had...
Community Without Unity
A Politics of Derridian Extravagance
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1989
Winner of the 1990 Foundations of Political Theory Section of the American Political Science Association "First Book Award"
Now available in paperback with a new preface by the author, this award-winning book breaks new ground by challenging traditional concepts of community in political...
New Deal Modernism
American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2000
In New Deal Modernism Michael Szalay examines the effect that the rise of the welfare state had on American modernism during the 1930s and 1940s, and, conversely, what difference this revised modernism made to the New Deal’s famed invention of “Big Government.”
Szalay situates his study within...
Disenchanting Les Bons Temps
Identity and Authenticity in Cajun Music and Dance
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2002
The expression laissez les bons temps rouler—"let the good times roll"—conveys the sense of exuberance and good times associated with southern Louisiana’s vibrant cultural milieu. Yet, for Cajuns, descendants of French settlers exiled from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in the mid-eighteenth...
Laura
Uncovering Gender and Genre in Wyatt, Donne and Marvell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
How do men imagine women? In the poetry of Petrarch and his English successors—Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell—the male poet persistently imagines pursuing a woman, Laura, whom he pursues even as she continues to deny his affections. Critics have long held that, in objectifying Laura, these male-authored...
by David LaRocca, Fredric Jameson, Garrett Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Wars have played a momentous role in shaping the course of human history. The ever-present specter of conflict has made it an enduring topic of interest in popular culture, and many movies, from Hollywood blockbusters to independent films, have sought to show the complexities and horrors of war on-screen.
In...
The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume I
A Novel, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2005
A major literary event, the publication of this masterly translation makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature available to English-speaking readers for the first time. The three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance is the crowning achievement of Peter Weiss, the...
Things Fall Away
Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
In Things Fall Away, Neferti X. M. Tadiar offers a new paradigm for understanding politics and globalization. Her analysis illuminates both the power of Filipino subaltern experience to shape social and economic realities and the critical role of the nation’s writers and poets in that process. Through...
Politics, Ideology, and Literary Discourse in Modern China
Theoretical Interventions and Cultural Critique
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 1993
This collection of essays addresses the perception that our understanding of modern China will be enhanced by opening the literature of China to more rigorous theoretical and comparative study. In doing so, the book confronts the problematic and complex subject of China's literary, theoretical, and...
by Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 1997
Global in scope, but refusing a familiar totalizing theoretical framework, the essays in The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital demonstrate how localized and resistant social practices—including anticolonial and feminist struggles, peasant revolts, labor organizing, and various cultural...