Cultures of uneven and combined development : from international relations to world literature / edited by James Christie, Nesrin Degirmencioglu. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, (c)2019. - 1 online resource. - Historical materialism book series ; volume 180 .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : why cultures of uneven and combined development? / Uneven and combined development as a universal aspect of capitalist modernity / Troubling time and space in world politics : reimagining western modernity in the Atlantic mirror / The Iranian Revolution in the mirror of uneven and combined development / Rationalist or nationalist? The eighteenth-century public sphere / Uneven and combined development : between capitalist modernity and modernism / Fredric Jameson and the rise of world literature : from world systems theory to uneven and combined development / Late capitalism in contemporary fiction / Differential time and aesthetic form : uneven and combined capitalism in the work of Allan Sekula / Aesthetics of uneven and combined development : Tanpinar and Dos Passos at a world literary conjuncture / Demon landscapes, uneven ecologies : folk-spirits in Guyanese fiction / James Christie, Nesrin Degirmencioglu -- Neil Davidson -- Alexander Anievas, Kerem Nisancioglu -- Kamran Matin -- Luke Cooper -- Neil Davidson -- James Christie -- Robert Spencer -- Gail Day, Steve Edwards -- Nesrin Degirmencioglu -- Michael Niblett.

"Cultures of Uneven and Combined Development seeks to explore and develop Leon Trotsky's concept of uneven and combined development. In particular, it aims to adapt the political and historical analysis which originated in Trotsky's Russia for use within the contemporary field of world literature. As such, it draws together the work of scholars from both the field of international relations and the field of literature and the arts. This collection will therefore be of particular interest to anyone who is interested in new ways of understanding world literary texts, or interested in new ways of applying Trotsky's revolutionary politics to the contemporary world order"--



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Historical materialism.
Communism and international relations.
Literature--History and criticism.
World politics in literature.
World history in literature.


Electronic Books.

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