Fredric Jameson A Critical Reader [Paperback]

This volume brings together original work from internationally recognized scholars that critically engages with the full range of Jameson's work, including: Sartre, Luk?cs, '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.Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction Sartrean Origins; S.Homer The American Luk?cs? Fredric Jameson and Dialectical Thought; C.Pawling Fredric Jameson on 'Third-World Literature': A Qualified Defence; N.Lazarus Postmodernism is the Theory, Gentrification is the Practice: Jameson, Haraldsson, Architecture and Vancouver; C.Burnham Stranded Economies; C.A.Gregory The Political Unconscious of Globalization: Notes from the Periphery; M.E.Cevasco Jameson as a Theorist of Revolutionary Philately; S.Zizek Talking Film with Fredric Jameson; M.Chanan Postmodern Negative Dialectics; J.O'Kane Modernity as Cultural Politics: Jameson in China; X.Zhang Jameson, Brecht, Lenin and Spectral Possibilities; E.Leslie Dekalog as Decameron ; F.Jameson Bibliography IndexCLINT BURNHAM University of British Columbia, and Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, CanadaMARIA ELISA CEVASCO Professor of English and American Literatures, University of Sao Paulo, BrazilMICHAEL CHANAN Professor of Cultural Studies, University of the West of England, Bristol, UKCHRISTIAN A. GREGORY Teaches at Auburn University, USANEIL LAZARUS Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UKESTHER LESLIE Lecturer in English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, UKJOHN O'KANE Teaches Theory, Media and Cultural Studies at the UnlL