Benita Parry
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3784472 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Benita Parry |
| PRENOMES | Benita |
| SOBRENOME | Parry |
| ASSINATURA | PARRY B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Warwick |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 197 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1973 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Signs of Our Times
The Constraints of Chibber’s Criticism
A position joining critical theory with the Marxist critique of imperialism informs the following discussion on the perceived shortcomings of Chibber’s study in its avowed claim to disavow postcolonial theory. Chibber’s insistence on reading Subaltern Studies as postcolonial theory is unsustainable in that it fails to address the epistemological premises of a theory adopted and not initiated by the project. Whereas Chibber does ably contest asser…
Edward Said and Third-World Marxism
Edward Said and Third-World Marxism Benita Parry (bio) I Because so many questions have been asked of Said's work in bad faith, many who have learned from and leaned on his thinking, and who are in awe of his erudition and the spaciousness of his writings, may remain inhibited from asking any at all. Such reticence would be untrue to Said's insistence that there should be no solidarity without criticism, and that the labor of criticism must inclu…
What is Left in Postcolonial Studies
This response to "The State of Postcolonial Studies" in New Literary History (Winter 2012) is a critique of the theoretical assumptions and methodologies in essays purporting to provide a genealogy of postcolonial studies and signal its future directions as enhancing the understanding of globalization and its effects. The argument of the rejoinder points to the partiality of accounts of the field's intellectual inspirations, practices, and achiev…
Reflections on the Excess of Empire in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North
The New South Africa
Within the constraints of an aversion to the autobiographies of bit players in epic events, I attempt to trace my intellectual formation in 1950s South Africa. I go on to suggest that the experience of participation in a far‐left political movement indelibly marked my subsequent work within and against the grain of postcolonial studies where the critical embrace of a “reconciliatory” ideology displaced the explanatory category of conflict and str…
Postcolonial Studies
This powerful selection of essays proposes practices of reading and criticism to make the field of postcolonial studies more fully attentive to historical circumstances and socio-material conditions. Benita Parry points to 'directions and dead ends' in the discipline she has helped to shape, with a first series of essays vigorously challenging colonial discourse theory and postcolonialism as we have known them. She then turns to literature with a…
Internationalism Revisited or in Praise of Internationalism
Because Empire presents itself as a reinvention of Marxism under the banner of left-anarchist thought, it is relevant to consider whether it converges with the return of Marxism to intellectual life. The argument of this essay is that the book’s ‘rhizomic’ methodology produces a map of a deterritorialized globalization from which the Marxist landmarks of capitalism’s structural unevenness, concentrated state power, and class conflict are absent; …
Liberation theory
It must initially appear improbable that disciplinary fields constituted around critiques of capitalism and colonialism have given a meager reception to liberation theory. I will return to a tendency among postcolonial critics to disown liberation discourses and practices, and indeed all forms of anticolonialist rhetoric and organization. But first I want to consider why so few of the major Marxist metatheorists in Europe undertook to examine the…
Liberation movements
(1998). Liberation movements: memories of the future. Interventions: Vol. 1, Ideologies of the Postcolonial, pp. 45-51
Signs of our times
(1994). Signs of our times: Discussion of Homi Bhabha's the location of culture. Third Text: Vol. 8, No. 28-29, pp. 5-24
A Critique Mishandled
A book that promises Marxist intervention in the cultural critique of imperialism will quicken great expectations among those who are discontented with the frequent incuriosity about the inscriptions of political economy in its representational systems. As one such reader of Aijaz Ahmad's In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures,' I anticipated an analysis attentive to the making and effects of imperialism's independent practices, and commensurat…
Problems in Current Theories of Colonial Discourse
Writing of the disparate projects that seek to establish alternative protocols in disciplinary studies, Edward Said finds their common feature to be that all work out of a secular, marginal and oppositional consciousness, posits 'nothing less than new objects of knowledge ... new theoretical models that upset or at the very least radically alter the prevailing paradigmatic norms', and are 'political and practical in as much as they intend ... the…
Delusions and Discoveries
Problems in Current Theories of Colonial Discourse
Writing of the disparate projects that seek to establish alternative protocols in disciplinary studies, Edward Said finds their common feature to be that all work out of a secular, marginal and oppositional consciousness, posits 'nothing less than new objects of knowledge ... new theoretical models that upset or at the very least radically alter the prevailing paradigmatic norms', and are 'political and practical in as much as they intend ... the…
Signs of our times
(1994). Signs of our times: Discussion of Homi Bhabha's the location of culture. Third Text: Vol. 8, No. 28-29, pp. 5-24
What is Left in Postcolonial Studies
This response to "The State of Postcolonial Studies" in New Literary History (Winter 2012) is a critique of the theoretical assumptions and methodologies in essays purporting to provide a genealogy of postcolonial studies and signal its future directions as enhancing the understanding of globalization and its effects. The argument of the rejoinder points to the partiality of accounts of the field's intellectual inspirations, practices, and achiev…
A Critique Mishandled
A book that promises Marxist intervention in the cultural critique of imperialism will quicken great expectations among those who are discontented with the frequent incuriosity about the inscriptions of political economy in its representational systems. As one such reader of Aijaz Ahmad's In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures,' I anticipated an analysis attentive to the making and effects of imperialism's independent practices, and commensurat…
The New South Africa
Within the constraints of an aversion to the autobiographies of bit players in epic events, I attempt to trace my intellectual formation in 1950s South Africa. I go on to suggest that the experience of participation in a far‐left political movement indelibly marked my subsequent work within and against the grain of postcolonial studies where the critical embrace of a “reconciliatory” ideology displaced the explanatory category of conflict and str…
The Constraints of Chibber’s Criticism
A position joining critical theory with the Marxist critique of imperialism informs the following discussion on the perceived shortcomings of Chibber’s study in its avowed claim to disavow postcolonial theory. Chibber’s insistence on reading Subaltern Studies as postcolonial theory is unsustainable in that it fails to address the epistemological premises of a theory adopted and not initiated by the project. Whereas Chibber does ably contest asser…
Reflections on the Excess of Empire in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North
Internationalism Revisited or in Praise of Internationalism
Because Empire presents itself as a reinvention of Marxism under the banner of left-anarchist thought, it is relevant to consider whether it converges with the return of Marxism to intellectual life. The argument of this essay is that the book’s ‘rhizomic’ methodology produces a map of a deterritorialized globalization from which the Marxist landmarks of capitalism’s structural unevenness, concentrated state power, and class conflict are absent; …
Liberation movements
(1998). Liberation movements: memories of the future. Interventions: Vol. 1, Ideologies of the Postcolonial, pp. 45-51
Delusions and Discoveries
Problems in Current Theories of Colonial Discourse
Writing of the disparate projects that seek to establish alternative protocols in disciplinary studies, Edward Said finds their common feature to be that all work out of a secular, marginal and oppositional consciousness, posits 'nothing less than new objects of knowledge ... new theoretical models that upset or at the very least radically alter the prevailing paradigmatic norms', and are 'political and practical in as much as they intend ... the…
A Critique Mishandled
A book that promises Marxist intervention in the cultural critique of imperialism will quicken great expectations among those who are discontented with the frequent incuriosity about the inscriptions of political economy in its representational systems. As one such reader of Aijaz Ahmad's In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures,' I anticipated an analysis attentive to the making and effects of imperialism's independent practices, and commensurat…
Signs of our times
(1994). Signs of our times: Discussion of Homi Bhabha's the location of culture. Third Text: Vol. 8, No. 28-29, pp. 5-24
Liberation movements
(1998). Liberation movements: memories of the future. Interventions: Vol. 1, Ideologies of the Postcolonial, pp. 45-51
Liberation theory
It must initially appear improbable that disciplinary fields constituted around critiques of capitalism and colonialism have given a meager reception to liberation theory. I will return to a tendency among postcolonial critics to disown liberation discourses and practices, and indeed all forms of anticolonialist rhetoric and organization. But first I want to consider why so few of the major Marxist metatheorists in Europe undertook to examine the…
Internationalism Revisited or in Praise of Internationalism
Because Empire presents itself as a reinvention of Marxism under the banner of left-anarchist thought, it is relevant to consider whether it converges with the return of Marxism to intellectual life. The argument of this essay is that the book’s ‘rhizomic’ methodology produces a map of a deterritorialized globalization from which the Marxist landmarks of capitalism’s structural unevenness, concentrated state power, and class conflict are absent; …
Postcolonial Studies
This powerful selection of essays proposes practices of reading and criticism to make the field of postcolonial studies more fully attentive to historical circumstances and socio-material conditions. Benita Parry points to 'directions and dead ends' in the discipline she has helped to shape, with a first series of essays vigorously challenging colonial discourse theory and postcolonialism as we have known them. She then turns to literature with a…
Reflections on the Excess of Empire in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North
The New South Africa
Within the constraints of an aversion to the autobiographies of bit players in epic events, I attempt to trace my intellectual formation in 1950s South Africa. I go on to suggest that the experience of participation in a far‐left political movement indelibly marked my subsequent work within and against the grain of postcolonial studies where the critical embrace of a “reconciliatory” ideology displaced the explanatory category of conflict and str…
What is Left in Postcolonial Studies
This response to "The State of Postcolonial Studies" in New Literary History (Winter 2012) is a critique of the theoretical assumptions and methodologies in essays purporting to provide a genealogy of postcolonial studies and signal its future directions as enhancing the understanding of globalization and its effects. The argument of the rejoinder points to the partiality of accounts of the field's intellectual inspirations, practices, and achiev…
Edward Said and Third-World Marxism
Edward Said and Third-World Marxism Benita Parry (bio) I Because so many questions have been asked of Said's work in bad faith, many who have learned from and leaned on his thinking, and who are in awe of his erudition and the spaciousness of his writings, may remain inhibited from asking any at all. Such reticence would be untrue to Said's insistence that there should be no solidarity without criticism, and that the labor of criticism must inclu…
The Constraints of Chibber’s Criticism
A position joining critical theory with the Marxist critique of imperialism informs the following discussion on the perceived shortcomings of Chibber’s study in its avowed claim to disavow postcolonial theory. Chibber’s insistence on reading Subaltern Studies as postcolonial theory is unsustainable in that it fails to address the epistemological premises of a theory adopted and not initiated by the project. Whereas Chibber does ably contest asser…
Signs of Our Times
Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (9 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Politics (7 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras) · Aesthetics (5 obras) · Marxist philosophy (5 obras) · Capitalism (4 obras) · Epistemology (4 obras)