Hegemony and strategies of transgression : essays in cultural studies and comparative literature
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Hegemony and strategies of transgression : essays in cultural studies and comparative literature
（SUNY series in postmodern culture / Joseph Natoli, editor）
State University of New York Press, c1995
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-278) and index
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Description
In Part One, the author examines what is at stake in the complex relations between theory and practice in exchanges involving Paul de Man, Mikhail Bakhtin, Georg Lukács, Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin, Antonio Gramsci, and others. In Part Two, San Juan focuses on the materialist aesthetics of Louis Althusser and Pierre Macherey, examining their resonance in a Hemingway novel and in the poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid. In Part Three, the author conducts an appraisal of James Baldwin's worldview, the textualization of the Asian diaspora in the United States, and the interface between postmodern themes and "postcolonial" sensibilities.
The ultimate project of the author is to envision the emergence of a new field called "world cultural studies" from a radical "Third World" perspective. The transition from Western "hegemony" to the transformative, oppositional inquiry of "Others" epitomizes the itinerary of San Juan's exploration of the discipline once called litterae humaniores but now reconceived as the praxis of critical transgressions.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Interrogation
1. "To Read What Was Never Written"
From Deconstruction to a Poetics of Redemption
2. From Bakhtin to Gramsci
Intertextuality, Praxis, Hegemony
3. Arguments within Marxist Critical Theory
Part Two: Reconfigurations
4. Prospectus to an Aesthetics of "Imaginary Relations"
5. Ideological Form, Symboilc Exchange, Textual Production
A Reading of Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls
6. Hugh MacDiarmid
Toward a Materialist Poetics
Part Three: Interventions
7. James Baldwin's Dialectical Imagination
8. History and Representation
Symbolizing the Asian Diaspora in the United States
9. Beyond Postmodernism
Notes on "Third World" Discourses of Resistance
10. Multiculturalism and the Challenge of World Cultural Studies
Bibliography
Index
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