Foreword. Jameson Maestro / Kim Stanley Robinson xi Introduction. Writing from Jameson / Nicholas Brown, Maria Elisa Cevasco, Fabio Akcelrud DurAo, and Robert T. Tally Jr. 1 Part I. Theory 1. Thresholds of Concept / Sianne Ngai 17 2. Allegorical Mimesis of the Flowing of All Things: The Search for a Method in Fredric Jameson's Brecht and Method / Xudong Zhang 28 3. Is Jameson's Theory Althusser's Philosophy? / Eleanor Kaufman 44 4. The Spatial Dialectic in Hegel; or, Asymmetries / Andrew Cole 67 5. The 1960s as a Vanishing Mediator; or, From the Symbolic to the Real in Fredric Jameson / Phillip E. Wegner 87 Part II. New Forms 6. Totality Desires: Psychoanalytic Dialectics in Jameson and Kiesling / Anna Kornbluh 113 7. Jameson, the Jukebox Musical, and the Postmodern Pastiche / Ian Buchanan 128 8. Big Marx Energy: Jameson's TikTok Dialectics / Clint Burnham 144 9. Jameson as Blindspot Machine / Eric Cazdyn 160 Part III. The Present and the Future 10. Late Capitalist Scalings / Kathi Weeks 179 11. Unred: Poetics of Protofascism / Alberto Toscano 190 12. Utopia as Agility / Gerry Canavan 205 13. Toward a New Comparatism: "Third World Literature" Today / Ericka Beckman 221 Part IV. Extrapolations 14. A Diagnostic Criticism for the Twenty-First Century / Carolyn Lesjak 239 15. The Poetics of the Tax-Form / Michael Denning 257 16. The Contemporary Third-World Novel: Toward a New Humanity / Aisha Karim 278 17. Dialectical Criticism in a Era of Multinational Genocide / Henry Schwarz 298 Afterword. Lunch at the Savoy / Richard Dienst 313 Contributors 329 Index
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