SPAN 6870 - [Marxisms, Otherwise]

Fall. Not offered: 2022-2023. Next offered: 2023-2024. 3 credits. Student option grading.

V. Gubbins.

The Marx-Engels corpus remains one of the most widely read and translated bodies of work. One of its many effects has been an international profusion of more writings, where diverse authors have sought to develop, respond, refute, question, criticize, analyze, update, these works. This course will trace some of the greatest Marxist spin-offs of the 20th and 21st centuries, primarily in the Spanish, Italian and French-speaking worlds. We will examine how these texts have been inspired by the Marxist critical spirit to distinct ends, locating themselves in the ambiguous space between wild reading and unigue theory.