After Marx

Colleen Lye is Associate Professor of English at UC Berkeley. She is the author of America's Asia (Princeton UP, 2005) and the co-editor of several special journal issues on the topics of realism, financialization, and the struggle for public higher education. Currently she is at work on a book on the Asian American sixties. Christopher Nealon teaches English at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall (2001) and The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in The American Century (2011), and four books of poetry, most recently Heteronomy (2014), and The Shore (2020).

Introduction: Marxist literary study and the general law of capitalist accumulation Colleen Lye and Christopher Nealon; 1. Black Marxism and the antinomies of racial capitalism Nikhil Pal Singh; 2. Eco-criticism and primitive accumulation in indigenous studies Iyko Day; 3. Screening insurrection: Marx, cinema, revolution Mark Steven; 4. Marxist ecology and Shakespeare Crystal Bartolovich; 5. There is no 'more commodification': Periodizing capitalist transformation Leigh Claire La Berge; 6. The irreconcilable: Marx after literature Joshua Clover; 7. The rise and fall of the English-language literary novel since World War II Sarah Brouillette; 8. Literature and the state Juliana Spahr; 9. Post-Soviet aesthetics Marijeta Bozovic and Rossen Djagalov; 10. Lu Xun's literary revolution in Chinese Marxism Petrus Liu; 11. Latin American literature and dependency theory today Ericka Beckman; 12. Industry culture: Labor and technology in Marxist critical theory Annie McClanahan; 13. In service to capital: Theater and Marxist cultural theory Michael Shane Boyle; 14. Hidden abodes and inner bonds: Literary study and Marxist-feminism Amy De'Ath; 15. Poetry and revolution Jasper Bernes.