Cultures of Uneven and Combined Development

From International Relations to World Literature
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-33728-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 180, 385 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series

Cultures of Uneven and Combined Development seeks to explore and develop Leon Trotsky’s concept of uneven and combined development. In particular, it aims to adapt the political and historical analysis which originated in Trotsky’s Russia for use within the contemporary field of world literature. As such, it draws together the work of scholars from both the field of international relations and the field of literature and the arts. This collection will therefore be of particular interest to anyone who is interested in new ways of understanding world literary texts, or interested in new ways of applying Trotsky’s revolutionary politics to the contemporary world order.

Contributors: Alexander Anievas, Gail Day, James Christie, Kamran Matin, Kerem Nisancioglu, Luke Cooper, Michael Niblett, Neil Davidson, Nesrin Degirmencioglu, Robert Spencer, Steve Edwards.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Christie, James

Degirmencioglu, Nesrin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Part 1 Introducing the Field

Introduction: Why Cultures of Uneven and Combined Development?
James Christie and Nesrin Degirmencioglu

1 Uneven and Combined Development as a Universal Aspect of Capitalist Modernity
Neil Davidson

Part 2 Critiquing Eurocentrism

2 Troubling Time and Space in World Politics: Reimagining Western Modernity in the Atlantic Mirror
Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu

3 The Iranian Revolution in the Mirror of Uneven and Combined Development
Kamran Matin

4 Rationalist or Nationalist? The Eighteenth-Century Public Sphere
Luke Cooper

Part 3 Towards a Theory of Culture

5 Uneven and Combined Development: Between Capitalist Modernity and Modernism
Neil Davidson

6 Fredric Jameson and the Rise of World Literature: From World Systems Theory to Uneven and Combined Development
James Christie

Part 4 Reading under the Sign of Uneven and Combined Development

7 Late Capitalism in Contemporary Fiction
Robert Spencer

8 Differential Time and Aesthetic Form: Uneven and Combined Capitalism in the Work of Allan Sekula
Gail Day and Steve Edwards

9 Aesthetics of Uneven and Combined Development: Tanpinar and Dos Passos at a World Literary Conjuncture
Nesrin Degirmencioglu

10 Demon Landscapes, Uneven Ecologies: Folk-Spirits in Guyanese Fiction
Michael Niblett

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

James Christie was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, where he received his Ph.D. in 2014. He now teaches English in secondary education in the UK. His research interests include critical theory and contemporary American fiction. He has published in Mediations: The Journal of the Marxist Literary Group, and The Cormac McCarthy Journal.

Nesrin Degirmencioglu was formerly a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, where she received her Ph.D. in 2014. She now teaches at the Middle East Technical University’s Northern Cyprus Campus. Her current research focuses on world literature debates and manifestations of neoliberalism in contemporary American and Turkish fiction.