“A classic of late 20th-century Euroamerican critical thought.” --Ned Lukacher, Choice
“For anybody hoping to understand not just the cultural but the political and social implications of postmodernism...Jameson’s book is a fundamental, nonpareil text.” --Gilbert Adair, Sunday Times (London)
“Fredric Jameson is America’s leading Marxist critic, a prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep magisterially from Sophocles to science fiction. . . . Postmodernism is an intellectual blockbuster.” --Terry Eagleton, Irish Times
“No one theorist illustrates the recent history of postmodernism’s history so well as Fredric Jameson.” --Michael Bérubé, Voice Literary Supplement
About the Author
Fredric Jameson is Professor and Chair of the Literature Program at Duke University. He is the coeditor, with Masao Miyoshi, of The Cultures of Globalization, also published by Duke University Press.
