Hegemony and Strategies of Transgression

E. San Juan, Jr. is currently directing graduate seminars in Ethnic Studies and American Culture at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He is on leave as Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

"This is a brilliant and unique intervention into a host of major and knotty contemporary debates in literary criticism. In particular, it is refreshing and inspiring to see the uncompromising anti-racism and anti-Eurocentrism of these studies combined with a sophisticated outlook and understanding of cultural production in the mid-late twentieth century. I am simply not aware of any other scholar working in the United States who has such an extraordinary range and depth of understanding on these matters." — Alan Wald, The University of Michigan, editor of Against the Current"This book is a truly astonishing performance. By his comprehensive understanding of literature within material history and his mapping of alternatives, San Juan opens a vista into the future of literature and criticism." — James R. Bennett, Director, Gustavus Myers Center, The University of Arkansas

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One: Interrogation1. "To Read What Was Never Written"From Deconstruction to a Poetics of Redemption2. From Bakhtin to GramsciIntertextuality, Praxis, Hegemony 3. Arguments within Marxist Critical TheoryPart Two: Reconfigurations4. Prospectus to an Aesthetics of "Imaginary Relations"5. Ideological Form, Symboilc Exchange, Textual ProductionA Reading of Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls 6. Hugh MacDiarmidToward a Materialist PoeticsPart Three: Interventions7. James Baldwin's Dialectical Imagination8. History and RepresentationSymbolizing the Asian Diaspora in the United States 9. Beyond PostmodernismNotes on "Third World" Discourses of Resistance10. Multiculturalism and the Challenge of World Cultural StudiesBibliographyIndex