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Using the aesthetic and political concerns of Parry's oeuvre as a touchstone, this book explores new directions for postcolonial studies, Marxist literary criticism, and world literature in the contemporary moment, seeking to re-imagine the field, and alongside it, new possibilities for left critique. It is the first volume of essays focusing on the field-defining intellectual legacy of the literary scholar Benita Parry. As a leading critic of the post-structuralist turn within postcolonial studies, Parry has not only brought Marxism and postcolonial theory into a productive, albeit tense, dialogue, but has reinvigorated the field by bringing critical questions of resistance and struggle to bear on aesthetic forms. The book's aim is two-fold: first, to evaluate Parry's formative influence within postcolonial studies and its interface with Marxist literary criticism, and second, to explore new terrains of scholarship opened up by Parry's work. It provides a critical overview of Parry's key interventions, such as her contributions to colonial discourse theory; her debate with Spivak on subaltern consciousness and representation; her critique of post-apartheid reconciliation and neoliberalism in South Africa; her materialist critique of writers such as Kipling, Conrad, and Salih; her work on liberation theory, resistance, and radical agency; as well as more recent work on the aesthetics of "peripheral modernity." The volume contains cutting-edge work on peripheral aesthetics, the world-literary system, critiques of global capitalism and capitalist modernity, and the resurgence of Marxism, communism, and liberation theory by a range of established and new scholars who represent a dissident and new school of thought within postcolonial studies more generally. It concludes with the first-ever detailed interview with Benita Parry about her activism, political commitments, and her life and work as a scholar.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
NEIL LAZARUS
Against the Grain: An Introduction to Benita Parry's Intellectual Itinerary
SHARAE DECKARD AND RASHMI VARMA
PART I
Aesthetics
1 Against Modernism
TIMOTHY BRENNAN
2 'I remember, I remember so as not to forget!' Orhan Pamuk's Melancholic Agency and the Splenetic Périples of Mediterranean Writing
NORBERT BUGEJA
3 'Broken Histories': The Modern and the Tribal in Arun Joshi's The Strange Case of Billy Biswas
RASHMI VARMA
4 Peripheral Irrealisms: Water-spirits, World-Ecology, and Neoliberalism
MICHAEL NIBLETT
5 "Not Even a Sci-Fi Writer": Peripheral Aesthetics, the World-System Novel, and Junot Díaz
SHARAE DECKARD
PART II
Politics
6 Towards a Pre-History of National Liberation Struggle
PETER HALLWARD
7 Disaffection, Sedition, and Resistance: Aurobindo Ghose and Revolutionary Thought
KEYA GANGULY
8 Revolutionary Nationalism and Global Horizons: The Ghadar Party on Ireland and China
PRANAV JANI
9 The Limits of African Nationalism: From Anti-Apartheid Resistance to Postcolonial Critique
DAVID JOHNSON
10 Maverick Marxism? Eclipsed Enlightenments, Horizons of Solidarity and Utopian Realism
CAROLINE ROONEY
PART III
Interlocution
11 "It could be otherwise, it must be otherwise": A Conversation with Benita Parry
SHARAE DECKARD AND RASHMI VARMA
12 "Intellectual Life: A Duty to Dissent": A Graduation Address at the University of York, 12 July 2006
BENITA PARRY
13 Benita Parry's Position: Talk given at the Benita Parry Conference at the University of Warwick, 17 November 2001
TIMOTHY BRENNAN
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography of Benita Parry's Works
