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Hardcover:
9780822351986 | Duke Univ Pr, May 28, 2012, cover price $84.95
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9780822352099 | Duke Univ Pr, May 28, 2012, cover price $23.95
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9780822348344 | Duke Univ Pr, January 28, 2011, cover price $84.95
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9780822348481 | Duke Univ Pr, February 18, 2011, cover price $23.95
"We, the readers and students of literature, have been hijacked. The literary critics, our teachers, those assassins of culture, have put us up against the wall and held us captive." So begins Jonah Raskin’s The Mythology of Imperialism. When first published in 1971, this book was nothing short of a call to arms, an open revolt against the literary establishment. In his critique of five well-known British writers—Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, and Joyce Cary—Raskin not only developed the model for a revolutionary anti-imperialist criticism, but, through this book’s influence on Edward Said, helped usher in the field of postcolonial studies.Nearly four decades later, The Mythology of Imperialism is all the more relevant. Its readings of British literature still offer bold and original insight into the relationship between text, artist, and historical context. But, perhaps more crucially, this book sends a revolutionary message to all readers and students of literature. Against much of today’s postcolonialism—diluted by postmodern obfuscation and largely detached from its historical roots—Raskin locates the center of his anti-imperialist criticism in the anti-imperialist struggle itself and takes his cues not from "the assassins of culture" in the academy but from the national liberation movements of his time.Written with absorbing passion and machete-sharp analysis, this new edition of The Mythology of Imperialism includes the original text, a new introduction and afterword by the author, and a preface by Bruce Robbins.
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9781583671870 | New edition (Monthly Review Pr, August 1, 2009), cover price $79.00 | About this edition: "We, the readers and students of literature, have been hijacked.
Paperback:
9781583671863 | New edition (Monthly Review Pr, August 1, 2009), cover price $19.95
Hardcover:
9780691049878 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 2, 2007, cover price $52.00
Paperback:
9780691146638, titled "Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State" | Princeton Univ Pr, December 21, 2009, cover price $35.00
Miscellaneous:
9781400827657, titled "Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State" | Princeton Univ Pr, September 2, 2008, cover price $27.95
Paperback:
9780321436900 | 1 edition (Longman Pub Group, January 15, 2007), cover price $106.40
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9780321173065 | 1 edition (Longman Pub Group, February 1, 2004), cover price $55.40
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9780814775134 | New York Univ Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $85.00
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9780814775141 | New York Univ Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $27.00
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9780816630677 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $68.95 | About this edition: Book by Social Text Collective
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9780816630684 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $26.00
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9780231059664 | Columbia Univ Pr, February 1, 1986, cover price $90.00
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9780822313977 | Reprint edition (Duke Univ Pr, September 1, 1993), cover price $23.95
Product Description: During the 1980s, university-based intellectuals came under heavy fire from both radicals and conservatives. They were accused by the former of betraying their public duty as general critics of society, and by the latter of promulgating radical ideologies and corrupting the young...read more
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9780860914303 | Verso Books, August 1, 1993, cover price $60.00
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9780860916307 | Verso Books, August 1, 1993, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: During the 1980s, university-based intellectuals came under heavy fire from both radicals and conservatives.
Product Description: In the recent “culture wars†over canon, curriculum, and multiculturalism, enraged voices repeatedly claim that the academy has failed in its duty to “the public.†These cries echo older charges against the schools and the media for failing to produce active, informed citizens and, more recently, against race and gender politics for dividing the body politic against itself...read more
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9780816621248 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, July 1, 1993, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In the recent “culture wars†over canon, curriculum, and multiculturalism, enraged voices repeatedly claim that the academy has failed in its duty to “the public.
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9780816621262 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $19.95
Hardcover:
9780816618309 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, October 1, 1990, cover price $39.95
Paperback:
9780816618316 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, October 1, 1990, cover price $26.50
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