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""Behind Our Backs forges new bonds between a typically uncompanionable trio--Marxist value theory, feminism, and literary critique. It will be seen as a key document in the dissolution of the long-standing antinomy between totality and difference, value and identity."" --Colleen Lye, University of California, Berkeley

""In this brilliant study of social forms, De'Ath shows how a surprisingly speculative strain of contemporary poetry explores unseen connections between the domination of value and the process of feminization. A groundbreaking book for both Marxist and feminist literary criticism.""--Sianne Ngai, University of Chicago ""Using a nimble Marxian understanding of abstraction, De'Ath shows us the mistake we make when we call avant-garde poems 'abstract' and really just mean 'intellectual.' We will be better readers of political poetry because of this book.""--Christopher Nealon, Johns Hopkins University ""Behind Our Backs forges new bonds between a typically uncompanionable trio--Marxist value theory, feminism, and literary critique. It will be seen as a key document in the dissolution of the long-standing antinomy between totality and difference, value and identity."" --Colleen Lye, University of California, Berkeley

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Amy De'Ath is Assistant Professor of English at Tufts University.

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