Hidden Abodes and Inner Bonds

Literary Study and Marxist-Feminism

Dados Bibliográficos

ID23212930
AutoresAmy De’ath (autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Páginas225-239
Data de publicação2022-03-17
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoCHAPTER
PeriódicoAfter Marx (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781108776523.015
OpenAlexW4220651982
ISBN9781108776523
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas14

This chapter argues that Marxist-feminist methods informed by new readings of Marx that first emerged in Germany in the 1960s can provide capacious and flexible critical tools for feminist analysis. Drawing in particular on the concept of real abstraction, I demonstrate an approach to Marxist-feminist literary study that avoids structuralist and economistic understandings of cultural production, as well as the simplistic notions of false consciousness and ideology critique that inflect much twentieth-century Marxist literary criticism. Rather, Marx's critique of value as a social form that operates "behind our backs," as a set of impersonal compulsions that push forward independent of thought, can help us to better understand the dialectics of aesthetic experience – exemplified here in my reading of feminized poetry – as an important mode of sense-perception attuned to (or even able to "theorize") the dynamic and contradictory reproduction of gender and its mediation by capital.

Aesthetics · Art · Criticism · Dialectic · Epistemology · Feminism · Ideology · Literary criticism · Literature · Marxist philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism