Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: The Territory of Marxism....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Marxist Theory and the Specificity of Afro-American Oppression....Pages 17-29
Discussion....Pages 30-33
The Toad in the Garden: Thatcherism among the Theorists....Pages 35-57
Discussion....Pages 58-73
Toward a Leftist Cultural Politics: Remarks Occasioned by the Centenary of Marx’s Death....Pages 75-88
Hegemony and New Political Subjects: Toward a New Concept of Democracy....Pages 89-101
Discussion....Pages 102-104
Desire and Power: A Feminist Perspective....Pages 105-116
Discussion....Pages 117-121
Marxism and Beyond: Strategies of Reterritorialization....Pages 123-136
Discussion....Pages 137-139
In Defense of Political Economy and Systemic Analysis: A Critique of Prevailing Theoretical Approaches to the New Social Movements....Pages 141-156
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
The Vacillation of Ideology....Pages 159-209
What Is a Revival of Marxism and Why Do We Need One Today?: Centennial Lecture Commemorating the Death of Karl Marx....Pages 211-234
Philosophy and Revolution: Twenty Sheaves of Questions....Pages 235-248
Metaphor and Social Antagonisms....Pages 249-257
Patriarchy, Domestic Mode of Production, Gender, and Class....Pages 259-267
Discussion....Pages 268-269
Can the Subaltern Speak?....Pages 271-313
Front Matter....Pages 315-315
Modernity and Revolution....Pages 317-333
Discussion....Pages 334-338
The Spell of Indecision....Pages 339-344
Discussion....Pages 345-346
Cognitive Mapping....Pages 347-357
Discussion....Pages 358-360
The New Sentence and the Commodity Form: Recent American Writing....Pages 361-380
Postmodernism as a “Structure of Feeling”....Pages 381-403
Schizoanalysis: The Postmodern Contextualization of Psychoanalysis....Pages 405-416
Front Matter....Pages 417-417
Women’s Rage....Pages 419-428
Can Industrial Culture Be a Culture of Difference: A Reflection on France’s Confrontation with the U.S. Model of Serialized Cultural Production....Pages 429-445
The “New Song” and Its Confrontation in Latin America....Pages 447-460
Art Ideology and Pop Practice....Pages 461-475
The Politics of Film: Discourse, Psychoanalysis, Ideology....Pages 477-486
Class, Power, and Culture....Pages 487-501
Beyond Ethnocentrism: Gender, Power, and the Third-World Intelligentsia....Pages 503-515
Front Matter....Pages 517-517
The Production of Scientific Knowledge: Science, Ideology, and Marxism....Pages 519-537
Discussion....Pages 538-541
The Concept of the Philosophy of Praxis in the Quaderni of Antonio Gramsci....Pages 543-563
Marxism, Normative Theory, and Alienation....Pages 565-580
Front Matter....Pages 517-517
Communications in Socialist France: The Difficulty of Matching Technology with Democracy....Pages 581-606
Contamination, Coincidence, and Collusion: Pop Music, Urban Culture, and the Avant-Garde....Pages 607-611
Discussion....Pages 612-615
Front Matter....Pages 617-617
The Critic as Clown....Pages 619-631
Discourse: Structure or Event?....Pages 633-650
The Book of Poems as a Social Act: Notes toward an Interpretation of Contemporary Hispanic American Poetry....Pages 651-662
Can People Be (Re)Presented in Fiction?: Toward a Theory of Narrative Agents and a Materialist Critique beyond Technocracy or Reductionism....Pages 663-696
The Place of Aesthetics in Marxist Criticism....Pages 697-713
Marxist Literary Criticism in China....Pages 715-722
Back Matter....Pages 723-738