The Political Unconscious

Name: The Political Unconscious
Author: Fredric Jameson

by Fredric Jameson

Jameson's Marxist criticism arguing that texts contain a political unconscious beneath surface meanings

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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.

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