Fredric Jameson

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Sartrean Origins

   • Sean Homer

   Pages 1-21

3. The American Lukács? Fredric Jameson and Dialectical Thought

   • Christopher Pawling

   Pages 22-41

4. Fredric Jameson on ‘Third-World Literature’: A Qualified Defence

   • Neil Lazarus

   Pages 42-61

5. Postmodernism is the Theory, Gentrification is the Practice: Jameson, Haraldsson, Architecture, and Vancouver

   • Clint Burnham

   Pages 62-76

6. Stranded Economies

   • Christian A. Gregory

   Pages 77-93

7. The Political Unconscious of Globalization: Notes from the Periphery

   • Maria Elisa Cevasco

   Pages 94-111

8. Jameson as a Theorist of Revolutionary Philately

   • Slavoj Žižek

   Pages 112-124

9. Talking Film with Fredric Jameson: A Conversation with Michael Chanan

   • Michael Chanan

   Pages 125-141

10. Postmodern Negative Dialectics

    • John O’Kane

    Pages 142-168

11. Modernity as Cultural Politics: Jameson and China

    • Xudong Zhang

    Pages 169-194

12. Jameson, Brecht, Lenin and Spectral Possibilities

    • Esther Leslie

    Pages 195-209

13. Dekalog as Decameron

    • Fredric Jameson

    Pages 210-222

14. Back Matter

    Pages 223-242

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This volume brings together original work from internationally recognized scholars that critically engages with the full range of Jameson's work, including: Sartre, Lukács, 'Third World' literature, architecture, postmodernity, globalization, film, dialectics and Brecht. In a series of lively, and at times iconoclastic readings, the contributors challenge accepted views of Jameson's work and locate his project in the historical, political and institutional context that shaped it. The volume concludes with an original contribution by Jameson himself, providing an opportunity for readers to critically engage with his work themselves.

• Bertolt Brecht
• Gentrification
• globalization
• Institution
• Nation
• postmodernism

• City College, Thessaloniki, Greece

  Sean Homer

• Chair in the Philosophy of Education, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

  Douglas Kellner

CLINT BURNHAM University of British Columbia, and Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Canada MARIA ELISA CEVASCO Professor of English and American Literatures, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil MICHAEL CHANAN Professor of Cultural Studies, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK CHRISTIAN A. GREGORY Teaches at Auburn University, USA NEIL LAZARUS Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK ESTHER LESLIE Lecturer in English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK JOHN O'KANE Teaches Theory, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of South Carolina, USA CHRIS PAWLING Honorary Visiting Research Fellow, Sheffield Hallam University, UK XUDONG ZHANG is Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University SLAVOJ ZIZEK Senior Researcher, Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

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