Hegemony and Strategies of Transgression: Essays in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature

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SUNY Press, 1 janv. 1995 - 286 pages
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.

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Introduction
INTERROGATIONS
9
To Read What Was Never Written FROM DECONSTRUCTION TO A POETICS OF REDEMPTION
11
From Bakhtin to Gramsci INTERTEXTUALITY PRAXIS HEGEMONY
31
Arguments within Marxist Critical Theory
47
RECONFIGURATIONS
67
Prospectus to an Aesthetics of Imaginary Relations
69
Ideological Form Symbolic Exchange Textual Production A READING OF HEMINGWAYS FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
87
INTERVENTIONS
139
James Baldwins Dialectical Imagination
141
History and Representation SYMBOLIZING THE ASIAN DIASPORA IN THE UNITED STATES
161
Beyond Postmodemism NOTES ON THIRD WORLD DISCOURSES OF RESISTANCE
189
Multiculturalism and the Challenge of World Cultural Studies
215
Bibliography
255
Index
275
Droits d'auteur

Hugh MacDiarmid TOWARD A MATERIALIST POETICS
117

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E. San Juan, Jr. is currently directing graduate seminars in Ethnic Studies and American Culture at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He is on leave as Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

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