ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book analyzes the reasons that might explain the hatred of matter. It offers a way to rethink the material imbrication of theory and fiction. The book explores the way Marxism interprets economics. It aims to promote a materialism that will take sides with the subaltern, the repressed, marginal subjects that Marxism tends to forget. The book shows how anti-colonial studies, post-colonial studies, and feminist approaches, pay attention to the discarded, the losers of history, those who, too often, were under the radar of Marxism. It highlights a relatively recent trend of thought called new materialism whose goal it is to rehabilitate matter’s own power. The book explains the necessity, for a materialist perspective, to understand what reality is and how literature reckons with it.
