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Imagine Fredric Jameson—the world’s foremost Marxist critic—kidnapped and taken on a joyride through the cultural ephemera, generational hype, and Cold War fallout of our post-post-contemporary landscape. In The Jamesonian Unconscious , a book as joyful as it is critical and insightful, Clint Burnham devises unexpected encounters between Jameson and alternative rock groups, new movies, and subcultures. At the same time, Burnham offers an extraordinary analysis of Jameson’s work and career that refines and extends his most important themes. In an unusual biographical move, Burnham negotiates Jameson’s major works—including Marxism and Form , The Political Unconscious , and Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism —by way of his own working-class, queer-ish, Gen-X background and sensibility. Thus Burnham’s study draws upon an immense range of references familiar to the MTV generation, including Reservoir Dogs , theorists Slavoj Zizek and Pierre Bourdieu, The Satanic Verses , Language poetry, the collapse of state communism in Eastern Europe, and the indie band Killdozer. In the process, Burnham addresses such Jamesonian questions as how to imag

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Author

Burnham, Clint

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822315858

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Political Science, Literary Fiction