After Marx

This book updates Marxist literary study for today. It showcases fresh approaches to reading poetry, fiction, film and drama, from Shakespeare to contemporary literature, and shows how Marxist criticism improves our understanding of racial capitalism, feminist politics, colonialism, deindustrialization, high-tech labor, and ecological crisis.

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Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Marxist Literary Study and the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation -- Periodizing Marxist Literary Study -- Reading Capital in the Post-2008 English Department -- After Marx: An Overview -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 1 Black Marxism and the Antinomies of Racial Capitalism -- References -- Chapter 2 Eco-Criticism and Primitive Accumulation in Indigenous Studies -- Primitive Accumulation and Wastelanding -- Zones of Racial Abstraction

Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 Screening Insurrection: Marx, Cinema, Revolution -- Industry to Insurrection -- Nothing to Lose -- References -- Chapter 4 Marxist Ecology and Shakespeare -- A Preponderance of Wood -- Common: ''Historical'' and ''Natural'' -- (De)Personification: ''Wood'' Wept? -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 There Is No ''More Commodification'': Periodizing Capitalist Transformation -- Introduction -- Marx before Commodification -- Marxism after Commodification -- Conclusion: There is No ''More Commodification'' -- Notes -- References

Chapter 6 The Irreconcilable: Ma…