Fredric Jameson
American Marxist literary critic whose Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism is the most important Marxist analysis of postmodern culture. The Political Unconscious proposed a method for reading literary texts in relation to their historical context. He is the most systematic Marxist critic in the Anglo-American tradition.
Works
- Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late CapitalismJameson's analysis of postmodernism as the cultural logic of late capitalism and multinational corporations
- The Political UnconsciousJameson's Marxist criticism arguing that texts contain a political unconscious beneath surface meanings
- Marxism and FormJameson's Marxist study of dialectical thought and form in twentieth-century literary and theoretical works
- The Geopolitical AestheticJameson's essays on how cinema and visual culture represent geopolitical conflict and global power dynamics
- Archaeologies of the FutureJameson's essays on science fiction and utopian thought as archaeological investigations of future possibilities