Neoliberalism and the Novel considers how developments in the form and reception of the novel have been influenced by changes in the arrangements of capital in the last forty years. It considers the way in which the neoliberal novel deploys familiar generic patterns as a site from which to offer critique; examines the changing operation of labour and time under neoliberalism and its effect on novel form; and offers a broader call for new reading and interpretative practices to respond to changing socio-economic realities. This book was originally published as a special issue of Textual Practice.…mehr
Neoliberalism and the Novel considers how developments in the form and reception of the novel have been influenced by changes in the arrangements of capital in the last forty years. It considers the way in which the neoliberal novel deploys familiar generic patterns as a site from which to offer critique; examines the changing operation of labour and time under neoliberalism and its effect on novel form; and offers a broader call for new reading and interpretative practices to respond to changing socio-economic realities. This book was originally published as a special issue of Textual Practice.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Emily Johansen is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. Her book, Cosmopolitanism and Place: Spatial Forms in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction, was released in 2014. She has written recent articles for Critique, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, and Textual Practice. Alissa G. Karl is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York, Brockport, NY, USA. Her research investigates the economic histories and imaginaries that impact the production and form of modern and contemporary literature and culture, and has appeared in such venues as American Literature, Novel, Modern Fiction Studies, and Textual Practice.
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Introduction: reading and writing the economic present 1. The betrayals of neoliberalism in Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy 2. Margaret Atwood's dystopic fiction and the contradictions of neoliberal freedom 3. Neoliberalism and the limits of the human: Rawi Hage's Cockroach 4. Reading alongside the market: affect and mobility in contemporary American migrant fiction 5. The banal conviviality of neoliberal cosmopolitanism 6. Managed risk and the lure of transparency in Anglophone African detective noir 7. The zero hour of the neoliberal novel 8. Neoliberalism and the time of the novel
Introduction: reading and writing the economic present 1. The betrayals of neoliberalism in Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy 2. Margaret Atwood's dystopic fiction and the contradictions of neoliberal freedom 3. Neoliberalism and the limits of the human: Rawi Hage's Cockroach 4. Reading alongside the market: affect and mobility in contemporary American migrant fiction 5. The banal conviviality of neoliberal cosmopolitanism 6. Managed risk and the lure of transparency in Anglophone African detective noir 7. The zero hour of the neoliberal novel 8. Neoliberalism and the time of the novel
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