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Author:   Sharae Deckard (University College Dublin, Ireland) ,  Rashmi Varma (Warwick University, UK) ,  Neil Lazarus
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
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9780367665555

ISBN 10:   0367665557
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   30 September 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"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"

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Sharae Deckard is Lecturer in World Literature at University College Dublin. She is author of Paradise Discourse, Imperialism and Globalization (Routledge 2010) and co-author with the Warwick Research Collective of Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature (Liverpool UP 2015). She has edited special issues of Ariel, The Journal of World-Systems Research, Green Letters, and The Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Her research centres on world-ecology and world-systems approaches to postcolonial and world literature. Rashmi Varma teaches postcolonial and world literature and transnational feminist theory in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She is the author of The Postcolonial City and Its Subjects (2012) and of the forthcoming Modern Tribal: Representing Indigeneity in Postcolonial India. She is a founding editorial collective member of the journal Feminist Dissent. Most recently, she has co-edited (with Subir Sinha) a symposium on Marxism and postcolonial theory for the journal Critical Sociology.

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