What the Heck is Historical Materialism? Breaking Down the Basics of Marxist Theory with Professor Sandeep Banerjee

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Reading Rooney: An Exercise in Collaborative Scholarship

Christina Marcucci

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Welcome to Reading Rooney: An Exercise in Collaborative Scholarship. This podcast integrates the voices of English literary scholars, graduate students, and general readers as we openly discuss, celebrate, and critique the work of author Sally Rooney. Rooney's oeuvre has gained mass popularity worldwide, but has equally been celebrated as a feat of literary fiction by scholars and critics; this combination of popularity and prestige makes Rooney’s novels a productive site for critical engagement among different readers. Thank you for being here! Instagram: @readingrooney

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What the Heck is Historical Materialism? Breaking Down the Basics of Marxist Theory with Professor Sandeep Banerjee

Reading Rooney: An Exercise in Collaborative Scholarship

32 minutes 6 seconds

3 years ago

What the Heck is Historical Materialism? Breaking Down the Basics of Marxist Theory with Professor Sandeep Banerjee

No, but really, what the heck is historical materialism? Professor Sandeep Banerjee from McGill University joins me to break down the basics of Marxist Theory (better known as historical materialism), and dialectics. Sally Rooney is a self-proclaimed Marxist, and there has been a lot of buzz about how her particular style reveals her commitments to this kind of ideology. What does it mean to write 'relationally', and how does Rooney's literary project push back against traditional modes of realism? What makes a novel 'Marxist' beyond attention to class? What does it mean to think about the world dialectically? In this episode, Prof. Banerjee and I think through these questions together vis-a-vis Beautiful World, Where Are You.

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