Marxism, postcolonial theory and the future of critique : critical engagements with Benita Parry / edited by Sharae Deckard and Rashmi Varma ; foreword by Neil Lazarus. - New York, Routledge, 2019. - xiv, 292 pages ; 24 cm. - Routledge research in postcolonial literatures, 63. .

GBP 115/-
TBH86/136

Foreword / Neil Lazarus --
Against the grain: an introduction to Benita Parry's intellectual itinerary / Sharae Deckard and Rashmi Varma. Part I. Aesthetics. Against Modernism / Timothy Brennan --
'I remember, I remember so as not to forget!' Orhan Pamuk's melancholic agency and the splenetic Périples of Mediterranean writing / Norbert Bugeja --
'Broken histories': the modern and the tribal in Arun Joshi's The Strange Case of Billy Biswas / Rashmi Varma --
Peripheral irrealisms: water-spirits, world-ecology, and neoliberalism / Michael Niblett --
"Not even a sci-fi writer": peripheral genres, the world-system novel, and Junot Díaz / Sharae Deckard. Part II. Politics. Towards a pre-history of national liberation struggle / Peter Hallward --
Disaffection, sedition, and resistance: Aurobindo Ghose and revolutionary thought / Keya Ganguly --
Revolutionary nationalism and global horizons: the Ghadar party on Ireland and China / Pranav Jani --
The limits of African nationalism: from anti-apartheid resistance to postcolonial critique / David Johnson --
Maverick Marxism? Eclipsed enlightenments, horizons of solidarity and utopian realism / Carolina Rooney. Part III. Interlocutions. "It could be otherwise, it should be otherwise": a conversation with Benita Parry / Sharae Deckard and Rashmi Varma --
"Intellectual life: a duty to dissent" / Benita Parry --
Benita Parry's position / Timothy Brennan.

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