by Jon Lackman | 31 March 2006 | Books, Theory
In the latest Third Text, Stephen Shapiro reviews Benita Parry’s Postcolonial Studies: A Materialist Critique: “The reward and challenge for a reader … is the treasure of encountering a critical practice fundamentally motivated by a Left experience of political community and self-critical commentary absent from many who position themselves within the academic field of postcolonial studies … In an age when governmental authorities casually trade in a metaphysics of cultural evil to hide their own complicity within the structured horror of life in late capitalism and its necessary production of physical and psychic distress, Parry’s adamantine writing illuminates a way beyond the caverns of state-sponsored fantasies.”
Also in this issue:
- Documentary as Painting in Sokurov’s Elegy of a Voyage
- Projecting Trauma: War Photography and the Public Sphere
- ‘Now I Live on a Painful Planet’: Frida Kahlo Revisited
- Back to Black: Art, Cinema and the Racial Imaginary
