The Postcritical Turn and Postcolonial Studies

19/08/2020

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Episode Synopsis

In “Surface Reading: An Introduction,” Sharon Marcus and Stephen Best question the relation between literary criticism and political activism. Best and Marcus advocate for a turn away from what Paul Ricoeur in Freud and Philosophy describes as the “hermeneutics of suspicion,” a term for practices of reading that derive their origins from the works of [...]