Year of manufacture: 2004
Editors: Sean Homer, Douglas Kellner
Genre: Literary criticism, theory of art
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 0-333-98208-8
Format: PDF
Number of Pages: 265
Language: English

Fredric Jameson is one of the most important and audacious cultural critics writing today. His work impacts across a range of disciplines from literary and cultural studies to film, sociology and architecture. This new collection of previously unpublished critical essays covers the full corpus of Jameson's work: from his initial studies of Sartre and dialectical criticism, through his path-breaking work on the political unconscious, modernism and postmodernism, to his controversial essays on third world literature, space, architecture and Latin American studies.

List of Plates vii
Acknowledgements viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Sean Homer and Douglas Kellner. Introduction xii
Sean Homer. Sartrean Origins 1
Christopher Pawling. The American Lukács? Fredric Jameson and Dialectical Thought 22
Neil Lazarus. Fredric Jameson on ‘Third-World Literature’: A Qualified Defence 42
Clint Burnham. Postmodernism is the Theory, Gentrification is the Practice: Jameson, Haraldsson, Architecture, and Vancouver 62
Christian A. Gregory. Stranded Economies 77
Maria Elisa Cevasco. The Political Unconscious of Globalization: Notes from the Periphery 94
Slavoj Zizek. Jameson as a Theorist of Revolutionary Philately 112
Michael Chanan. Talking Film with Fredric Jameson: A Conversation with Michael Chanan 125
John O’Kane. Postmodern Negative Dialectics 142
Xudong Zhang. Modernity as Cultural Politics: Jameson and China 169
Esther Leslie. Jameson, Brecht, Lenin and Spectral Possibilities 195
Fredric Jameson. Dekalog as Decameron 210
Bibliography 223
Index 237

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