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This study is, to a large extent, influenced by the Marxist doctrine on the relationship between literature and society. It has been assumed by the marxist literary theorists that literature as the upper level of society is determined by the lower level namely the economic. Meanwhile, it is also suggested that literature is a part of social-realism suggesting that literary writer must describe the reality within society and then make socialistic propaganda. This study, by concentrating on this contadictory statementnconcerning literature, sees that arcadia theory may be applicable in order to explain the relationship beetween literature and society. The theory assumes that a writer of a certain class, aristocracy for instance, must adapt his way of struggling against a certain condition to his own social background. In this way, it has been found that Amir Hamzah who was of the aristocratic family must fight against his own society by the use of 'hidden' propaganda rather than a straight forward or bottom-up approach.

Providing an overview of the main themes, issues and critical perspectives that have had the greatest effect on postcolonial literature, this text discusses the historical, cultural and contextual background that has affected postcolonial literatures andour reading of them

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Acknowledgements -- ‎List of Figures and Tables -- ‎Figures -- ‎Tables -- ‎Introduction -- ‎Part 1. Sociology of Literature -- ‎Chapter 1. Sociology and Literature -- ‎Chapter 2. The 'English' Ideology: Literary Criticism in England and Australia -- ‎Chapter 3. The Protestant Epic and the Spirit of Capitalism -- ‎Chapter 4. On the Beach: Apocalyptic Hedonism and the Origins of Postmodernism -- ‎Chapter 5. Loose Canons and Fallen Angels -- ‎Chapter 6. Dissenting, Plebeian, but Belonging Nonetheless: Bourdieu and Williams -- ‎Chapter 7. Deconstructing National Literature: Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies and Critical Theory -- ‎Chapter 8. It's the Conscience Collective, Stupid: Philosophical Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art -- ‎Chapter 9. Science Fiction and the Literary Field -- ‎Chapter 10. World Systems and World Science Fiction -- ‎Part 2. Cultural Materialism -- ‎Chapter 11. Considerations on English Marxism -- ‎Chapter 12. Literature, History and Post-Althusserianism -- ‎Chapter 13. The Revolutions in Favour of Capital -- ‎Chapter 14. Cultural Materialism, Culturalism and Post-Culturalism: The Legacy of Raymond Williams -- ‎Chapter 15. Cultural Studies and Cultural Hegemony: Comparing Britain and Australia -- ‎Chapter 16. Class and Cultural Production: The Intelligentsia as a Social Class -- ‎Chapter 17. Left Out? Marxism, the New Left and Cultural Studies -- ‎Chapter 18. From Media Imperialism to Semioterrorism -- ‎Part 3. Science Fiction -- ‎Chapter 19. Utopia and Science Fiction in Raymond Williams -- ‎Chapter 20. Darker Cities: Urban Dystopia and Science Fiction Cinema -- ‎Chapter 21. Postmodern Gothic: Buffy, The X-Files and the Clinton Presidency -- ‎Chapter 22. Framing Catastrophe: The Problem of Ending in Dystopian Fiction

This article provides a systematic study of Canon-Mocking Literature, an important cultural phenomenon in contemporary China. From the combined perspective of stylistics and cultural studies, the article suggests that Canon-Mocking Literature is a subversion of the discursive order of traditional canons, including their underlying aesthetics, morality, and cultural codes. The productive pleasure of Canon-Mocking Literature – that is of parody, collage, and pastiche – thus derives from the undermining of authority within certain limits. The second half of the article analyzes the relationship between the rise of Canon-Mocking Literature and the spread of cynicism in the sociohistorical context of contemporary China. It concludes that Canon-Mocking Literature is a means of cultural resistance and escape in a post-totalitarian society and possesses the dual character of both critique and compromise.

"What can literary theory reveal about discourses and practices of human rights, and how can human rights frameworks help to make sense of literature? How have human rights concerns shaped the literary marketplace, and how can literature impact human rights concerns? Essays in this volume theorize how both literature and reading literarily can shape understanding of human rights in productive ways. Contributors to Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature provide a shared history of modern literature and rights; theorize how trauma, ethics, subjectivity, and witnessing shape representations of human rights violations and claims in literary texts across a range of genres (including poetry, the novel, graphic narrative, short story, testimonial, and religious fables); and consider a range of civil, political, social, economic, and cultural rights and their representations. The authors reflect on the imperial and colonial histories of human rights as well as the cynical mobilization of human rights discourses in the name of war, violence, and repression; at the same time, they take seriously Gayatri Spivak's exhortation that human rights is something that we "cannot not want," exploring the central function of storytelling at the heart of all human rights claims, discourses, and policies" Publsher's note.