Cultures of Uneven and Combined Development

James Christie was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of English and Comparatıve Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, where he received his Ph.D. in 2014. He now teaches English in secondary education in the UK. His research interests include critical theory and contemporary American fiction. He has published in Mediations: The Journal of the Marxist Literary Group, and The Cormac McCarthy Journal.Nesrin Degirmencioglu was formerly a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, where she received her Ph.D. in 2014. She now teaches at the Middle East Technical University’s Northern Cyprus Campus. Her current research focuses on world literature debates and manifestations of neoliberalism in contemporary American and Turkish fiction.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsPart 1 Introducing the FieldIntroduction: Why Cultures of Uneven and Combined Development?James Christie and Nesrin Degirmencioglu1 Uneven and Combined Development as a Universal Aspect of Capitalist ModernityNeil DavidsonPart 2 Critiquing Eurocentrism2 Troubling Time and Space in World Politics: Reimagining Western Modernity in the Atlantic MirrorAlexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu3 The Iranian Revolution in the Mirror of Uneven and Combined DevelopmentKamran Matin4 Rationalist or Nationalist? The Eighteenth-Century Public SphereLuke CooperPart 3 Towards a Theory of Culture5 Uneven and Combined Development: Between Capitalist Modernity and ModernismNeil Davidson6 Fredric Jameson and the Rise of World Literature: From World Systems Theory to Uneven and Combined DevelopmentJames ChristiePart 4 Reading under the Sign of Uneven and Combined Development7 Late Capitalism in Contemporary FictionRobert Spencer8 Differential Time and Aesthetic Form: Uneven and Combined Capitalism in the Work of Allan SekulaGail Day and Steve Edwards9 Aesthetics of Uneven and Combined Development: Tanpınar and Dos Passos at a World Literary ConjunctureNesrin Degirmencioglu10 Demon Landscapes, Uneven Ecologies: Folk-Spirits in Guyanese FictionMichael NiblettBibliographyIndex