Fredric Jameson: A Critical Reader

✍ Scribed by Sean Homer, Douglas Kellner (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 265
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume brings together original work from internationally recognized scholars that critically engages with the full range of Jameson's work, including: Sartre, Lukács, 'Third World' literature, architecture, postmodernity, globalization, film, dialectics and Brecht. In a series of lively, and at times iconoclastic readings, the contributors challenge accepted views of Jameson's work and locate his project in the historical, political and institutional context that shaped it. The volume concludes with an original contribution by Jameson himself, providing an opportunity for readers to critically engage with his work themselves.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Sartrean Origins....Pages 1-21
The American Lukács? Fredric Jameson and Dialectical Thought....Pages 22-41
Fredric Jameson on ‘Third-World Literature’: A Qualified Defence....Pages 42-61
Postmodernism is the Theory, Gentrification is the Practice: Jameson, Haraldsson, Architecture, and Vancouver....Pages 62-76
Stranded Economies....Pages 77-93
The Political Unconscious of Globalization: Notes from the Periphery....Pages 94-111
Jameson as a Theorist of Revolutionary Philately....Pages 112-124
Talking Film with Fredric Jameson: A Conversation with Michael Chanan....Pages 125-141
Postmodern Negative Dialectics....Pages 142-168
Modernity as Cultural Politics: Jameson and China....Pages 169-194
Jameson, Brecht, Lenin and Spectral Possibilities....Pages 195-209
Dekalog as Decameron ....Pages 210-222
Back Matter....Pages 223-242

✦ Subjects

Social Theory; Sociology of Culture; Literary History; Sociology, general