"Spanning time and space from late Victorian Britain and Ireland to postwar America and Latin America, Late Imperial Culture maps crucial regions in the terrain of imperial cultural practices including theater, film, photography, fiction, autobiography, and body art. The forms reviewed in this lively collection range from those which accept and reproduce empire’s dominant self-images to scathing critiques of the oppressions that colonial ..."
Edward Said(1st Edition) A Critical Reader by MichaelSprinker, Professor MichaelSprinker Paperback, 284 Pages, Published 1993 by Wiley-Blackwell Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-1-55786-229-7, ISBN: 1-55786-229-X
"Edward Said's intellectual journeys have taken him around the globe and across many disciplinary borders. Author of "Orientalism and The Word", 'The Text", and "The Critic", Said has been widely influential in shaping contemporary debates in the humanities and social sciences, from literature and history to anthropology and area studies. Most famously, perhaps, he has also been for two decades the most visible spokesperson for the Pales ..."
Reshaping the US Left Popular Struggles in the 1980s (The Year left) by Mike Davis, MichaelSprinker Paperback, 312 Pages, Published 1988 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-0-86091-909-4, ISBN: 0-86091-909-9
"Major theorists discuss the renowned philosopher Jacques Derrida's most political and controversial work - with a response by Derrida himself. With the publication of Specters of Marx in 1993, Jacques Derrida redeemed a longstanding pledge to confront Marx's texts directly and in detail. His characteristically bravura presentation provided a provocative re-reading of the classics in the Western tradition and posed a series of chall ..."
Imaginary Relations(Updated) Aesthetics and Ideology in the Theory of Historical Materialism by MichaelSprinker Paperback, 310 Pages, Published 1987 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-0-86091-879-0, ISBN: 0-86091-879-3
"This book sets out to clarify the nature of the aesthetic as a category within the theory of historical materialism. It opens with an analysis of Marx’s brief discussion of Greek art in the Grundrisse, moves through a series of readings of specifically bourgeois texts, including those of Ruskin, G.M. Hopkins, Nietzsche and Henry James, and then to the terrain of Marxism in the concepts of history underwriting the work of Fredric Jameson ..."
"Louis Althusser remained until his death in 1990 the most controversial of the “master thinkers” who emerged from the turbulent Parisian intellectual scene of the 1960s. The publication of his bestselling posthumous “autobiography”, L’avenir dure longtemps, has now refueled some of these controversies. Hugely influential, whether lauded or vilified, Althusser occupies a unique place in contemporary philosophy. What is certain is that Al ..."
Magical Urbanism Latinos Reinvent the U.S. Big City by Mike Davis, MichaelSprinker Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2001 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-328-4, ISBN: 1-85984-328-X
"Winner of the 2001 Carey McWilliams Award Is the capital of Latin America a small island at the mouth of the Hudson River? Will California soon hold the balance of power in Mexican national politics? Will Latinos reinvigorate the US labor movement? These are some of the provocative questions that Mike Davis explores in this fascinating account of the Latinization of the US urban landscape. As he forefully shows, this is a demographic an ..."
"No major writer of the twentieth century seems a less likely candidate for Marxist analysis than Marcel Proust. A wealthy dilettante and notable fixture in the Parisian salons, Proust chronicled and anatomized the world of France's upper classes, earning a reputation among both contemporaries and subsequent generations for aesthetic refinement and social snobbery. Yet in a reconsideration of Proust's masterpiece, A Ia recherche du temps ..."
History and Ideology in Proust A la recherche du temps perdu and the Third French Republic (Cambridge Studies in French) by MichaelSprinker Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 1995 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-45342-4, ISBN: 0-521-45342-9
"This book offers a socio-historical reinterpretation of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. Breaking with recent trends in Proust criticism, Michael Sprinker draws on historical scholarship to assess Proust's portrait of French society, and shows that the novel's account of its class structure and rivalries was both precise and critically engaged. He argues that in other areas, notably the nature of nationalist sentiment and gender ide ..."
Mechanic Accents(1st Edition) Dime Novels and Working Class Culture (The Haymarket Series) by Michael Denning, MichaelSprinker Paperback, 259 Pages, Published 1987 by Verso Books ISBN-13: 978-0-86091-889-9, ISBN: 0-86091-889-0
"Libbey wrote for the Fireside Companion between October 1882 and January 1886,
... an attention to the pulp and paperback Western would probably reveal not ..."
"Michele Wallace's groundbreaking black feminist intervention into the maelstrom of cultural criticism was widely revered when it was first published in 1990. Now, in this new edition, she updates and extends the work for new and revisiting audiences. The early parts of the book remain untouched - a consideration of the work of her mother, the artist Faith Ringgold; recollections of her early life in Harlem; and an account of her develop ..."
"An Annual Journal of the American Left
Volume Two of The Year Left focuses on questions of race and ethnicity, surveying the prospects fora 'Rainbow Socialism' as well as examining the contemporary trends in Black and Hispanic popular culture.
Essays by Manning Marable, Herb Boys and Carlos Munoz provide the first comprehensive chronicle of the Blacks and Chicano Lefts in the 1980. Julianna Malveaux contributes an eye-opening critiq ..."
"London: Verso. Morgan, K., and Sayer, A. 1988. Micro-circuits of Capital.
Cambridge: Polity Press. Nun, G. 1985. The American West Transformed: The
Impact of the Second World War. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Nathan,
H., and Scott, E., eds. 1978. Experiment and Change in Berkeley. Berkeley:
Institute of Governmental Relations. Navarro, V. 1985. The 1980 and 1984 US
Elections and the New Deal'. In Milliband, R., Saville, J ..."
Imaginary Relations Aesthetics and Ideology in the Theory of Historical Materialism by MichaelSprinker Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 1987 by Verso Books ISBN-13: 978-0-86091-168-5, ISBN: 0-86091-168-3
"Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger’s widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. This, he argues, cannot be explained simply with reference to economic advantage; rather, white working-class racism is underpinned by a complex series of psychological and ideological m ..."
"Fredric Jameson, Antonio Negri, Terry Eagleton, Pierre Macherey and others engage in a debate on Marx with Jacques Derrida. With the publication of Specters of Marx in 1993, Jacques Derrida redeemed a longstanding pledge to confront Marx’s texts directly and in detail. His characteristically bravura presentation provided a provocative re-reading of the classics in the Western tradition and posed a series of challenges to Marxism. In a t ..."
"Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger’s widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. This, he argues, cannot be explained simply with reference to economic advantage; rather, white working-class racism is underpinned by a complex series of psychological and ideological m ..."
"Marc W. Herold and Nicholas Kozlov A prominent feature of both left and
mainstream analyses of recent trends in the world economy has been the
development of theories which propose the arrival of a new stage of capitalism
characterized ..."
"This 1995 book by Pierre Macherey was his first dealing with literature and theory since his seminal A Theory of Literary Production. Continuing the project of Althusserian theory, Macherey engages in a series of close exegeses of classical texts in French literature and philosophy, from the late eighteenth century down to the 1970s, that explore the historically variable but thematically similar ways in which literary texts represent p ..."