The Return of the Spectre: Gothic Marxism in The City & The City

Autor:	Andrew Rowcroft
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	History Literature and Literary Theory media_common.quotation_subject 06 humanities and the arts 060202 literary studies Mode (music) Presentation Expression (architecture) Aesthetics Capital (economics) 0602 languages and literature Marxist philosophy China Communism media_common
Zdroj:	Gothic Studies. 21:191-208
ISSN:	2050-456X 1362-7937
DOI:	10.3366/gothic.2019.0022
Popis:	This article argues for China Miéville's The City & The City (2009) as a gothic Marxist fiction that articulates new modalities of communist expression which productively ‘haunt’ the work of the ‘Idea of Communism’ conferences. Firstly, the essay establishes a relationship between Marx and the gothic tradition, showing how Marx has long been concerned with the gothic mode as a vital explanatory framework for representing capital. Secondly, the essay enacts a comparative presentation between Miéville's novel and the recent contributions of communist intellectual Alain Badiou. Through this process, Miéville's novel becomes a powerful symbolic engagement with selected aspects of twenty-first century communism, unearthing new and productive relations with radical left thought while refusing to fully banish, conquer, or forget the history of the twentieth-century effort.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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