On Jameson: From Postmodernism to Globalization

by Caren Irr (Editor), Ian Buchanan (Editor)

Overview

Offers an interrogation of Jameson's critical legacy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780791465912
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	12/21/2005
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Caren Irr is Associate Professor of English and American Literature at Brandeis University. She is the coeditor (with Jeffrey T. Nealon) of Rethinking the Frankfurt School: Alternative Legacies of Cultural Critique, also published by SUNY Press, and the author of The Suburb of Dissent: Cultural Politics in the U.S. and Canada during the 1930s.

Ian Buchanan is Professor of Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University. He is the author of Deleuzism: A Metacommentary and Michel de Certeau: Cultural Theorist.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Caren Irr and Ian Buchanan

PART I CENTRAL CONCEPTS

1. Generally Historicizing
Evan Watkins

2. History, Narrative, and Realism: Jameson’s Search for a Method
Carolyn Lesjak

3. A Level Playing Field? Metacommentary and Marxism
Roland Boer

4. Narratives of History, Narratives of Time
Sean Homer

PART II REACTIONS AND READINGS AROUND THE WORLD

5. Cultural Revolution, the Discourse of Intellectuals, and Other Folk Tales
Robert Seguin

6. Construction Work: Theory, Migration, and Labor in the Age of Globalization
Michael Rothberg

7. Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Postcommunism?: The Cultures of the Former Soviet Bloc Encounter Jameson
Vitaly Chernetsky

PART III TOWARD GLOBALIZATION

8. National Allegory Today: A Return to Jameson
Ian Buchanan

9. Who’s Afraid of National Allegory? Jameson, Literary Criticism, Globalization
Imre Szeman

10. The American Grounds of Globalization: Jameson’s Return to Hegel
Caren Irr

11. Periodizing Jameson, or, Notes toward a Cultural Logic of Globalization
Philip E.Wegner

Contributors
Index