Eduardo Cadava - Roundtable Discussing Politically Red

Book Roundtable on Politically Red. Discussants: Filippo Menozzi, Christinna Hazzard, David Tyrer, Colin Harrison, James Whitehead.

“Reading is class struggle,” writes Bertolt Brecht. Politically Red contextualizes contemporary demands for social and racial justice by exploring the shifting relations between politics and literacy. Through a series of creative readings of Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Walter Benjamin, W. E. B. Du Bois, Fredric Jameson, and others, it casts light on history as an accumulation of violence and, in doing so, suggests that it can become a crucial resource for confronting the present insurgence of inequality, racism, and fascism.

Eduardo Cadava is the Philip Mayhew Professor of English at Princeton University (USA), and an Associate Member of the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the School of Architecture, the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. He also serves on the Executive Committees of the Program in Media and Modernity, the Program in European Cultural Studies, the Program in Latin American Studies, and the Program in Jazz Studies.

Cover image: Holland House Library, October 23, 1940. Crown Copyright, NMR.