Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture

Cary Nelson, Lawrence Grossberg

University of Illinois Press, 1988 - Communism and culture - 738 pages

''The publication of Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture is a major event in the discourse of cultural criticism of our time. In both the scope of the issues addressed and in the depth with which each issue is examined, this collection of essays demonstrates that dialectical materialism remains the intellectual strategy with which any socially engaged critical practice, Right, Left, or Center, must come to terms. This book is indispensable for any intellectual who wishes to comprehend the current condition, not only of Marxian theory, but of social and cultural criticism in general.''--Hayden White, author of Metahistory and Tropics of Discourse ''With contributions from so many of the most important cultural theorists and new theoretical perspectives of the Left in the 1980s, Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture will stand as an intellectual monument to its times and be referred to for years to come.''--William Leon McBride, author of The Philosophy of Marx

Contents

• Marxist Theory and the Specificity of AfroAmerican Oppression: 13
• Discussion: 26
• The Toad in the Garden Thatcherism among the Theorists: 31
• Discussion: 54
• Toward a Leftist Cultural Politics Remarks Occasioned by the Centenary of Marxs Death: 71
• Hegemony and New Political Subjects Toward a New Concept of Democracy: 85
• Discussion: 98
• Desire and Power A Feminist Perspective: 101
• Discussion: 113
• Marxism and Beyond Strategies of Reterritorialization: 119
• Discussion: 133
• In Defense of Political Economy and Systemic Analysis A Critique of Prevailing Theoretical Approaches to the New Social Movements: 137
• Toward a Contemporary Marxism: 153
• The Vacillation of Ideology: 155
• What Is a Revival of Marxism and Why Do We Need One Today? Centennial Lecture Commemorating the Death of Karl Marx: 207
• Philosophy and Revolution Twenty Sheaves of Questions: 231
• Metaphor and Social Antagonisms: 245
• Patriarchy Domestic Mode of Production Gender and Class: 255
• Discussion: 264
• Can the Subaltern Speak?: 267
• The Politics of Modernity and Postmodernity: 311
• Modernity and Revolution: 313
• Discussion: 330
• The Spell of Indecision: 335
• Discussion: 341
• Cognitive Mapping: 343
• Discussion: 354
• The New Sentence and the Commodity Form Recent American Writing: 357
• Postmodernism as a Structure of Feeling: 377
• Schizoanalysis The Postmodern Contextualization of Psychoanalysis: 401
• Culture Domination and Resistance: 413
• Womens Rage: 415
• Can Industrial Culture Be a Culture of Difference A Reflection on Frances Confrontation with the US Model of Serialized Cultural Production: 425
• The New Song and Its Confrontation in Latin America: 443
• Art Ideology and Pop Practice: 457
• The Politics of Film Discourse Psychoanalysis Ideology: 473
• Class Power and Culture: 483
• Beyond Ethnocentrism Gender Power and the ThirdWorld Intelligentsia: 499
• Science Technology Politics and Ethics: 513
• The Production of Scientific Knowledge Science Ideology and Marxism: 515
• Discussion: 534
• The Concept of the Philosophy of Praxis in the Quademi of Antonio Gramsci: 539
• Marxism Normative Theory and Alienation: 561
• Communications in Socialist France The Difficulty of Matching Technology with Democracy: 577
• Contamination Coincidence and Collusion Pop Music Urban Culture and the AvantGarde: 603
• Discussion: 608
• The Politics of Theory and Interpretation: 613
• The Critic as Clown: 615
• Discourse Structure or Event?: 629
• The Book of Poems as a Social Act Notes toward an Interpretation of Contemporary Hispanic American Poetry: 647
• Can People Be RePresented in Fiction? Toward a Theory of Narrative Agents and a Materialist Critique beyond Technology or Reductionism: 659
• The Place of Aesthetics in Marxist Criticism: 693
• Marxist Literary Criticism in China: 711
• Notes on Contributors: 719
• Index: 729

Bibliographic information

• Title: Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture; Communications and culture
• Editors: Cary Nelson, Lawrence Grossberg
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1988
• ISBN: 0252014014, 9780252014017
• Length: 738 pages