Cultures of Uneven and Combined Development - From International Relations to World Literature

An engaging and ground breaking attempt to bring the insights of Trotsky's theory of uneven and combined development to bear on world literature.

About the author

James Christie was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of English and Comparatıve Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, where he received his Ph.D. in 2014. He now teaches English in secondary education in the UK. His research interests include critical theory and contemporary American fiction. He has published in Mediations: The Journal of the Marxist Literary Group, and The Cormac McCarthy Journal.
Nesrin Degirmencioglu was formerly a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, where she received her Ph.D. in 2014. She now teaches at the Middle East Technical University's Northern Cyprus Campus. Her current research focuses on world literature debates and manifestations of neoliberalism in contemporary American and Turkish fiction.

Summary

An engaging and ground breaking attempt to bring the insights of Trotsky's theory of uneven and combined development to bear on world literature.

Foreword

Features in Historical Materialism

Promotion targeting left academic journals

Published to coincide with the annual Historical Materialism conference

Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements

Product details

• Assisted by: James Christie (Editor), Nesrin Degirmencioglu (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.07.2021
• EAN: 9781642595659
• ISBN: 978-1-64259-565-9
• No. of pages: 398
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Historical Materialism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics, International Relations, ., Politics & government, Political Economy, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Literature: history and criticism, Marxism & Communism