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After Marx
Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century

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Colleen Lye, Christopher Nealon, Nikhil Pal Singh, Iyko Day, Mark Steven, Crystal Bartolovich, Leigh Claire La Berge, Joshua Clover, Sarah Brouillette, Juliana Spahr, Marijeta Bozovic and Rossen Djagalov, Petrus Liu, Ericka Beckman, Annie McClanahan, Michael Shane Boyle, Amy De'Ath, Jasper Bernes
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  • Date Published: March 2022
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9781108702249

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  • After Marx:Literature, Theory and Value demonstrates the importance of Marxist literary and cultural criticism for an era of intersectional politics and economic decline. The volume includes fresh approaches to reading poetry, fiction, film and drama, from Shakespeare to contemporary literature, and shows how Marxist literary criticism improves our understanding of racial capitalism, feminist politics, colonialism, deindustrialization, high-tech labor, ecological crisis, and other issues. A key innovation of the volume's essays is how they attend to Marx's theory of value. For Marx, capitalist value demands a range of different kinds of labor as well as unemployment. This book shows the importance of Marxist approaches to literature that reach beyond simply demonstrating the revolutionary potential or the political consciousness of a 19th-century-style industrial working class. After Marx makes an argument for the twenty-first century interconnectedness of widely different literary genres, and far-flung political struggles.

    • Provides both a basic overview and knowledge of the latest developments in the field.
    • Showcases the importance of Marxist concepts for across historical periods and national literatures.
    • Includes fresh approaches to reading poetry, fiction, film and drama, from Shakespeare to contemporary literature, and shows how Marxist literary criticism improves our understanding of racial capitalism, feminist politics, colonialism, and other issues.
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    • Date Published: March 2022
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9781108702249
    • length: 280 pages
    • dimensions: 228 x 150 x 17 mm
    • weight: 0.42kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction: Marxist literary study and the general law of capitalist accumulation Colleen Lye and Christopher Nealon
    1. Black Marxism and the antinomies of racial capitalism Nikhil Pal Singh
    2. Eco-criticism and primitive accumulation in indigenous studies Iyko Day
    3. Screening insurrection: Marx, cinema, revolution Mark Steven
    4. Marxist ecology and Shakespeare Crystal Bartolovich
    5. There is no 'more commodification': Periodizing capitalist transformation Leigh Claire La Berge
    6. The irreconcilable: Marx after literature Joshua Clover
    7. The rise and fall of the English-language literary novel since World War II Sarah Brouillette
    8. Literature and the state Juliana Spahr
    9. Post-Soviet aesthetics Marijeta Bozovic and Rossen Djagalov
    10. Lu Xun's literary revolution in Chinese Marxism Petrus Liu
    11. Latin American literature and dependency theory today Ericka Beckman
    12. Industry culture: Labor and technology in Marxist critical theory Annie McClanahan
    13. In service to capital: Theater and Marxist cultural theory Michael Shane Boyle
    14. Hidden abodes and inner bonds: Literary study and Marxist-feminism Amy De'Ath
    15. Poetry and revolution Jasper Bernes.

  • Editors

    Colleen Lye, University of California, Berkeley
    Colleen Lye is Associate Professor of English at UC Berkeley. She is the author of America's Asia (Princeton UP, 2005) and the co-editor of several special journal issues on the topics of realism, financialization, and the struggle for public higher education. Currently she is at work on a book on the Asian American sixties.

    Christopher Nealon, Johns Hopkins University
    Christopher Nealon teaches English at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall (2001) and The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in The American Century (2011), and four books of poetry, most recently Heteronomy (2014), and The Shore (2020).

    Contributors

    Colleen Lye, Christopher Nealon, Nikhil Pal Singh, Iyko Day, Mark Steven, Crystal Bartolovich, Leigh Claire La Berge, Joshua Clover, Sarah Brouillette, Juliana Spahr, Marijeta Bozovic and Rossen Djagalov, Petrus Liu, Ericka Beckman, Annie McClanahan, Michael Shane Boyle, Amy De'Ath, Jasper Bernes

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