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Against Literature
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Against Literature Paperback - 1993 - 1st Edition

by Beverley, John

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  • Title Against Literature
  • Author Beverley, John
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 202
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
  • Date 1993-09
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GRP81853045
  • ISBN 9780816622498 / 0816622493
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.04 x 6.06 x 0.44 in (22.96 x 15.39 x 1.12 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Criticism - History - 20th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92046356
  • Dewey Decimal Code 801.950

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From the rear cover

Is there a way of thinking about literature that is 'outside' or 'against' literature? In Against Literature, John Beverley brilliantly responds to this question, arguing for a negation of the literary that would allow nonliterary forms of cultural practice to displace literature's hegemony.

About the author

John Beverley is professor of Hispanic languages and literatures and cultural studies at the University of Pittsburgh, and has published extensively on the problems of narrative, history, ideology, subalternity, politics, imperialism, and revolution.