TY - BOOK AU - Deckard, Sharae, 1978-; AU - Varma, Rashmi; TI - Marxism, postcolonial theory and the future of critique : critical engagements with Benita Parry T2 - Routledge research in postcolonial literatures, SN - 9781138186118 (hbk.) U1 - 809.933581 MAR PY - 2019/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Marxist criticism KW - Postcolonialism in literature KW - Criticism KW - Literature N1 - 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 ER -