Fredric Jameson: A critical Reader

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 This new collection of previously unpublished critical essays covers the full corpus of Jameson's work: from his initial studies of Sartre and dialectical criticism, through his path-breaking work on the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.Content:
Sartrean Origins / The American Lukács? Fredric Jameson and Dialectical Thought / Fredric Jameson on ‘Third-World Literature’: A Qualified Defence / Postmodernism is the Theory, Gentrification is the Practice: Jameson, Haraldsson, Architecture, and Vancouver / Stranded Economies / The Political Unconscious of Globalization: Notes from the Periphery / Jameson as a Theorist of Revolutionary Philately / Talking Film with Fredric Jameson: A Conversation with Michael Chanan / Postmodern Negative Dialectics / Modernity as Cultural Politics: Jameson and China / Jameson, Brecht, Lenin and Spectral Possibilities / Dekalog as Decameron 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.