Add to ORKGMarxist literary theorisation has long proposed that the gaps, absences and contradictions evident within the literary text constitute a productive site for critical exploration. Turning a harsh gaze upon Jonathan Lethem’s Dissident Gardens (2013), a multigenerational narrative dealing with the legacy of American communism, civil rights activism and class consciousness, this paper proposes that the seeming avoidance (even abandonment) of the working class within a text focused on excavating the history of US communism, offers a number of interesting parallels with contemporary post-Marxism. Using Wendy Brown’s famous essay ‘Resisting Left Melancholia’ (1999), and the work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, particularly their Hegemony ...
This paper is concerned with the correlative process by which 21st century texts recognise, respond,...
This thesis responds to the question of what it means in practice to bring the terms class, cultur...
Social class remains a fundamental presence in British life in the twenty-first century. It is woven...
What’s Left? Marxism, American Fiction, and Literary Criticism The crisis and collapse Marxism a...
This study is about British working-class fiction in the post-war period. It covers various autho...
George Saunders peoples his stories with the losers of American history—the dispossessed, the oppres...
This thesis constitutes the first sustained attempt to locate twenty-first-century Anglo-American fi...
This thesis is about social class in post-2008 writing about Britain. Focusing on the work of severa...
The crisis and collapse of Marxism as the dominant paradigm of left intellectual thought undoubtedly...
Book review. The Working Class Collective (2022) The Lockdown Diaries of the Working Class. London:...
This special issue aims to contribute to this critical discussion by modestly staking out the contou...
Described politically as propagandistic: the imposition of political dogma on creativity; the litera...
In “Arguing the Inarguable: Ideology and Ethos in the Twentieth-Century Political Novel,” I examine ...
PhD ThesisThis thesis focuses on the US literary left of the 1930s, tracing precursors in pre-WWI an...
Although still understudied in scholarship, the global spread of left-wing writing during the Cold W...
This paper is concerned with the correlative process by which 21st century texts recognise, respond,...
This thesis responds to the question of what it means in practice to bring the terms class, cultur...
Social class remains a fundamental presence in British life in the twenty-first century. It is woven...
What’s Left? Marxism, American Fiction, and Literary Criticism The crisis and collapse Marxism a...
This study is about British working-class fiction in the post-war period. It covers various autho...
George Saunders peoples his stories with the losers of American history—the dispossessed, the oppres...
This thesis constitutes the first sustained attempt to locate twenty-first-century Anglo-American fi...
This thesis is about social class in post-2008 writing about Britain. Focusing on the work of severa...
The crisis and collapse of Marxism as the dominant paradigm of left intellectual thought undoubtedly...
Book review. The Working Class Collective (2022) The Lockdown Diaries of the Working Class. London:...
This special issue aims to contribute to this critical discussion by modestly staking out the contou...
Described politically as propagandistic: the imposition of political dogma on creativity; the litera...
In “Arguing the Inarguable: Ideology and Ethos in the Twentieth-Century Political Novel,” I examine ...
PhD ThesisThis thesis focuses on the US literary left of the 1930s, tracing precursors in pre-WWI an...
Although still understudied in scholarship, the global spread of left-wing writing during the Cold W...
This paper is concerned with the correlative process by which 21st century texts recognise, respond,...
This thesis responds to the question of what it means in practice to bring the terms class, cultur...
Social class remains a fundamental presence in British life in the twenty-first century. It is woven...