Socialist Cultures East and West
Subtitle: A Post-Cold War Reassessment
Contributors: Dubravka Juraga (Editor); M. Keith Booker (Editor)
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: June 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780275974909
Subjects: Cultural studies; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Sociology; General; Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Anthropology - Cultural; 20th century; Communism and culture; Communism and literature; History; Politics and literature
First sentence: In an important, though highly controversial, article from 1986, Fredric Jameson argues the value to "First World" intellectuals of close and careful analysis of "Third World" literature, which for Jameson still has access to certain kinds of social experience that have been made almost entirely unavailable in the West due to the homogenizing effects of the postmodernist culture of late capitalism.