Topic for Spring 2022: Marxist Cultural Criticism. An introduction to Marxist cultural criticism. Starting with foundational Marxist writings about culture (Marx, Lukacs, Gramsci, Althusser, and Adorno), examines how key concepts from the tradition get reformulated by Jameson, Spivak, Said, Zizek, and other contemporary critics to bear on questions of race, gender, sexuality, colonialism, modernity, and language.

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