...Dana Seitler When the question of aesthetics and politics is addressed, it is usually in the context of the Marxist and Frankfurt school debates. Nonetheless, what we think of as the well-rehearsed, and to some thinkers, transhistorical, polarity between art and activism is actually a fairly recent...

... those Book Reviews  411 rubrics normalize often masculinist national narratives. I call this a return because certainly strains of (particularly Marxist) feminism have long been invested in affiliations that recognize not only international...

... racial capitalism Marxist feminism indenture Rebecca N. Liu The Asian American Contract: On Useful Labor and Social Reproduction in Severance and Minari Abstract This article examines the central role that the work contract plays in the production and reproduction of Asian diasporic worlds. In light...

... ten years, is united not by ‘‘common subject matter but [by] the historical- materialist method’’ he employs (x). Thus he proposes to analyze contempo- rary drama through Marxist lenses and, as the title indicates, though his intro- duction does not, queer theory. Savran complains...

... or disavow cultural desires, to understand how forms of enchantment mark the limits of a social order’s ability to imagine ways of being in the world that lie outside its dominant ideologies. More recently, Fredric Jameson has theorized fantasy’s distinguishing tropes in Marxist...

...- tionary nationalism through the exercise of military force and neolib- eral economic policy. In the 1970s, Grenada’s revolutionary Marxist New Jewel Movement—composed largely of young leftists and student radicals—agitated against the corrupt regime of Eric Gairy, an anti­ colonial labor leader who...

... for Floyd to theorize queer interventions into the social. The Reification of Desire amounts to careful, often brilliant work; Floyd is not only rereading queer texts within Marxism, but also reading Marxist texts within queer studies. Subtle and smart revisionist readings of Lukács...

.... of Minnesota Press. 2012. xxii, 265 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paperback, $25.00. The essays here address the circulation and exchange of clothes and of the narratives that clothes represent. Drawing on Marxist theory as well as on theories of fashion and subjectivity, the essays inquire into dress...

... the critical map of the period between the World Wars by applying Marxist theory to identify a differently focused, postnational protest tradition, one that links the work of African American writers to the ‘‘liberating struggle of all oppressed work- ing class people’’ (139). Although Trudier Harris-Lopez...

... the critical map of the period between the World Wars by applying Marxist theory to identify a differently focused, postnational protest tradition, one that links the work of African American writers to the ‘‘liberating struggle of all oppressed work- ing class people’’ (139). Although Trudier Harris-Lopez...

... the critical map of the period between the World Wars by applying Marxist theory to identify a differently focused, postnational protest tradition, one that links the work of African American writers to the ‘‘liberating struggle of all oppressed work- ing class people’’ (139). Although Trudier Harris-Lopez...

... the critical map of the period between the World Wars by applying Marxist theory to identify a differently focused, postnational protest tradition, one that links the work of African American writers to the ‘‘liberating struggle of all oppressed work- ing class people’’ (139). Although Trudier Harris-Lopez...

... the critical map of the period between the World Wars by applying Marxist theory to identify a differently focused, postnational protest tradition, one that links the work of African American writers to the ‘‘liberating struggle of all oppressed work- ing class people’’ (139). Although Trudier Harris-Lopez...

... the critical map of the period between the World Wars by applying Marxist theory to identify a differently focused, postnational protest tradition, one that links the work of African American writers to the ‘‘liberating struggle of all oppressed work- ing class people’’ (139). Although Trudier Harris-Lopez...

... the critical map of the period between the World Wars by applying Marxist theory to identify a differently focused, postnational protest tradition, one that links the work of African American writers to the ‘‘liberating struggle of all oppressed work- ing class people’’ (139). Although Trudier Harris-Lopez...

... the critical map of the period between the World Wars by applying Marxist theory to identify a differently focused, postnational protest tradition, one that links the work of African American writers to the ‘‘liberating struggle of all oppressed work- ing class people’’ (139). Although Trudier Harris-Lopez...

... the critical map of the period between the World Wars by applying Marxist theory to identify a differently focused, postnational protest tradition, one that links the work of African American writers to the ‘‘liberating struggle of all oppressed work- ing class people’’ (139). Although Trudier Harris-Lopez...

... the critical map of the period between the World Wars by applying Marxist theory to identify a differently focused, postnational protest tradition, one that links the work of African American writers to the ‘‘liberating struggle of all oppressed work- ing class people’’ (139). Although Trudier Harris-Lopez...

..., antiracist-feminist, and complex Marxist astrofuturisms by Allen Steele, Vonda N. McIntyre, and Kim Stanley Robin- son. In each portrait, Kilgore establishes historical-biographical contexts and then offers descriptive summaries of important works. This approach rarely yields original literary...

... (Princeton physicist Gerald K. O’Neill and Ben Bova, a technical editor turned popular science fiction writer and editor). A conclu- sion briefly discusses working-class, antiracist-feminist, and complex Marxist astrofuturisms by Allen Steele, Vonda N. McIntyre, and Kim Stanley Robin- son. In each portrait...